ARTICLE: Special education too often leads to jail for thousands of American children

[Ryan Goble]

Sobering from the Hechinger Report:

Pipeline to Prison: Special education too often leads to jail for t...

Cody Beck was 12-years -old when he was handcuffed in front of several classmates and put in the back of a police car outside of Grenada Middle School. Cody had lost his temper in an argument with another student, and hit several teachers when they tried to intervene.
 

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Pipeline to Prison: How the juvenile justice system fails special e...

Toney Jennings was illiterate when he was arrested at age 16. In the six months he spent at the Lowndes County Jail in Eastern Mississippi, he says he played basketball, watched TV and “basically just stayed to myself.”