Kalief Browder and the School-To-Prison Pipeline

Kalief Browder and the School-To-Prison Pipeline

A few weeks ago, I was supposed to attend the premiere of Array, the documentary about a young man wrongly arrested and held captive for years in Rikers Island. The story uncovers the excesses and atrocities of the prison industrial complex in the world’s empire city all through a young man whose post-traumatic stress disorder ended with him taking his life. The Jay-Z / Weinstein Company-produced documentary would have been a delight to watch. Then school happened. As a teacher and parent, I get to see first hand the effects that schooling has on our youth. The constrictions and mandates ...

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