Capitol Hill Roundtable: Interrupt the ‘Poverty-to-Prison Pipeline’ [JJIE.org]

You’ve heard about the “school-to-prison pipeline.” Now, add to that the “cradle-to-prison pipeline,” the “poverty-to-prison pipeline” and the “prison-to-poverty pipeline.”

Whatever you call the phenomenon, “it’s a pipeline you don’t want a child to be going down,” Roy Austin Jr., an aide to President Barack Obama, said last week at a Capitol Hill roundtable on anti-poverty strategies and juvenile justice reform.

[For more of this story, written by Gary Gately, go to http://jjie.org/capitol-hill-roundtable-interrupt-the-poverty-to-prison-pipeline/107348/]