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Criminalizing the Classroom: Inside the School-to-Prison Pipeline

(DEMOCRACY NOW) Interview, October 28, 2015 — New York City has more than 5,000 police officers patrolling the city’s schools—that’s more than the combined number of school guidance counselors and social workers. Nationwide, more than 17,000 officers work in the school. What happens when students are arrested in the classroom? We look at what many experts call the “school-to-prison pipeline.”

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