“Shocks the Conscience” August 15, 2012
Posted by rogerhollander in Criminal Justice, Education.Tags: abby zimet, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, education, juveniles, mississippi, private prisons, roger hollander
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08.15.12 – www.commondreams.org
by Abby Zimet
A horrific story out of Meridian, Miss. – and evidently a lot of other places – where police act as a “taxi service” for a school-to-prison pipeline that shuttles mostly black kids to jail for “offenses” like dress code violations, flatulence, profanity, and disrespect. After months of investigation, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division found the police, Youth Court and Youth Services systematically violated the rights of mostly black and disabled children by arresting them without probable cause and sending them into a juvenile justice system where “existing due process protections are illusory and inadequate.”
“The systematic disregard for children’s basic constitutional rights by agencies with a duty to protect and serve these children betrays the public trust.“
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The kids’ parents are probably scared spitless of the police. Complain and life can become very difficult. Now lets talk about the schools, the school board the administrations who think its OK for kids to be carted off to jail for no good reason. Something is VERY wrong in their heads! But I’m not at all surprised! I live in Mississippi.
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And therein lies the rub. An aging population that is increasingly seeking vengeful retribution against even the most minor divergence from their narrow definitions of acceptability, and a greedy profit oriented privatized penal system. These people have evidently been getting away with this foulness for awhile, and apparently these toxic approaches are not uncommon in the US.
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Yep, all one needs to do is study the USA’s history of genocide of indigenous people and the enslavement of the children of Africa to understand the current situation: This is a culture of death.
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YEP, CORRUPT JUDGES, FOR PROFIT PENAL SYSTEM WHERE EVERYONE GETS A KICK BACK. POLICE ON UP. A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS. WONDER IF MITTY PAID ENOUGH TAXES TO SUPPORT SUCH AS THIS. .
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Got to feed the prison industrial complex, otherwise, how can Whackenhut (or whoever is running the prisons in Mississippi) maintain a 96% occupancy rate?
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My first thought was the question if this is another private-for-profit scam. If so, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time. Flashback to 2008, Pennsylvania – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K…
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ctrl-z, The on-screen printer seems low on ink. Ok, fixed it………………………………………………….. 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpandUmmm…hello…how else are we going to prepare them for a lifetime spent in and out of prison? It’s like on the job training. Not to mention the added benefit of de facto segregation of the schools. Yes we’re rolling back integration, one student at a time.
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I had no idea that flatulence is actually criminal behavior! Consider me a fugitive!
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