Break the Pipeline
Break-the-pipeline is a collection of written work addressing the expansive school-to-prison pipeline apparatus. The goal of this project is to decode the ways in which the pipeline exists among its various ways, how it functions inside the confines of schools and well beyond it, and solutions that seek to address the root causes of it.
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Police-Led Youth Programs Don’t Actually Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline
By strengthening police power—allowing them to be the first responders to school incidents and determining who is diverted—reformers for police-led youth diversion programs inevitably build capacity for the prison-industrial complex.
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Police-Free Schools Are Necessary, As Is Abolishing The White Supremacist State They Are Rooted In
Taking a more in-depth look at the systemic problems that brought legitimacy to police in schools in the first place.
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Police-Free Schools Are More Important Than Ever for Ending the School-To-Prison Pipeline
What does safety mean for Black and Brown students inside school systems that don’t see them as students, but rather a threat?