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| Discovery Imminent in Mississippi School-to-Prison Allegations |
| By jjie.org - Maggie Lee |
| Published: 09/27/2013 |
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ATLANTA -- Official interviews and evidence gathering will start soon in Meridian, Miss., a year after federal officials accused several agencies of operating a schoolhouse-to-jailhouse pipeline. The case has helped motivate other communities to look more closely at their own schools, said Scott Roberts, who leads the Advancement Project’s Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track campaign. The Department of Justice sued the city of Meridian, Lauderdale County, the county Youth Court judges, the state and two state agencies in October 2012. The DOJ alleges that the agencies run a “school-to-prison pipeline:” a system that criminalizes youths, especially young people of color, by answering petty rule-breaking with placement in a system that deprives them of due process. JJIE.org first reported on the case last year. Two months after the suit was filed, the defendants asked the U.S. District Court judge in Jackson to dismiss the case against the two Youth Court judges. This month, the judge rejected the motion and scheduled a case management conference for Oct. 7. Read More. |
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