Pipeline to Prison: Special Education Too Often Leads to Jail for Thousands of American Children [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 10/28/144:00 AM

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news website focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, the only national news outlet reporting the juvenile justice issue daily. Read more about efforts to improve education in Mississippi.

GRENADA, Miss. — 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 Grenada Middle School. Cody had lost his temper in an argument with another student, and hit several teachers when they tried to intervene. He was taken to the local youth court and then sent to a mental health facility two hours away from his home. Twelve days later, the sixth-grader was released from the facility and charged with three counts of assault.

[For more of this story, written by Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz, go to http://jjie.org/pipeline-to-pr...can-children/107820/]

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