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| OpEd: Invest in children |
| By Carolina Peacemaker |
| Published: 09/24/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - Every election year, politicians talk about getting tough on crime. One easy and politically popular strategy is to show voters you are tough on crime by spending billions of dollars sending people to prison. This requires more prisons to be built to keep the ever expanding incarcerated population behind bars and reduces the money available for investment in health care, education, work force development, and early childhood development to prevent children from going into the Pipeline to Prison. The Children’s Defense Fund works nationally to stop “lock ‘em up” legislation that favors punitive measures for children and youths over preventive investments. This year our fight is not limited to federal legislation. In the coming weeks we also will focus on defeating Proposition 6—a horrendous California ballot initiative that would criminalize youths through massive revisions to the state’s juvenile justice codes. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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