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"As mothers and fathers, grandparents, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles and allies, we believe in and implement a model of organizing that is people- and community-centered, and is explicitly anti-racist."
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We Are Building a Movement to Stop the School to Prison Pipeline.
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Louisiana Officials Admit They Have No Plan in Place for Youth Being Sent to Angola August 12, 2022 LOUISIANA – Amid rising concerns from youth advocates, the Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ) and the Special School District (SSD) recently admitted that they have no plans in place to provide genera...
A new administrator for the state Office of Juvenile Justice suggested Monday that Louisiana prosecutors need to consider charging more underage teenagers with adult crimes.
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How we can blame youth for our failures to provide them with the education, mental health services, and supports they need? #LetKidsBeKids #NoMorePrisons https://t.co/evhSiPAnzu
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How can adults expect more from young people than we expect of ourselves? Support our efforts to give system-impacted youth a #secondchance by sharing about our #DebtFreeJustice campaign. @ProgenyICT @aundrelarrow @marcusejarvis https://t.co/JJQOh3FRsW
How can adults expect more from young people than we expect of ourselves? Support our efforts to give system-impacted youth a #secondchance by sharing about our #DebtFreeJustice campaign. @ProgenyICT @aundrelarrow @marcusejarvis https://t.co/JJQOh3FRsW
As often as our media and policymakers try to make it seem like our Black and brown youth are to blame, this video proves otherwise. Lawmakers have failed to fulfill the promises of #Act1225 of 2003. #LetKidsBeKids https://t.co/QQtaaVVJXm
Unless maybe they are forced to get a brain transplant (think Get Out), our kids CAN NOT process information or make decisions like adults. Their brains are not fully developed. #LetKidBeKids. https://t.co/1aXwCaHyr6
With ongoing crises throughout state youth facilities, OJJ should be attempting to seek better credentialed applicants or more thoroughly train existing staff, but instead they want to lower hiring requirements in the worst possible way! https://t.co/r8C8i2GCO5
Moving youth to Angola has national implications as the superpredator myth is used to criminalize Black and brown youth. It is more than symbolic to house kids at Angola, a former slave plantation, under the same harsh and violent conditions as adults. https://t.co/2HYF5rSyxq https://t.co/5FVdVk2MjT
Our Freedom Ride livestream continues today at 12:30 and 2:30 CDT. For more info visit: https://t.co/z1svjMyQHy. We will see you on FB live at https://t.co/JLaeOLL7tQ! #NoMorePrisons #blackaugust2022
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Stop the school to prison pipeline to help children stay in school and reduce the possibility of incarceration, and provide training to parents and schools on positive behavioral intervention supports.
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