PREVENTION OF SCHOOLHOUSE -2- JAILHOUSE PROJECT
The Prevention of Schoolhouse -2- Jailhouse Project seeks to minimize youth and families' interface with the Juvenile Justice system at both the local and state level. We provide support to families as they navigate the juvenile justice process. As a part of our work, we hold local systems accountable for developing a community-based system of care for youth and their families.
Upon request, we provide advocacy services on behalf of youth and their family at the school administrative level and youth court hearings. We continue to work to build a coordinated system of care for youth-friendly policies/practices, which include advocating against the adoption & implementation of zero tolerance and similar policies that push children out of schools and into the juvenile justice system.
We are partners with the Mississippi Coalition for the Prevention of Schoolhouse to Jailhouse, a statewide group of educators, community, legal, and public policy groups. The Coalition has dedicated itself to working for cost-effective and humane methods to close the Mississippi Schoolhouse to Jailhouse pipeline and reform its wasteful, ineffective juvenile justice system.
reported incidents of Corporal Punishment in Holmes County,
Why Are Black Students Facing Corporal Punishment in Public Schools?
A growing controversy over the use of the “paddle” to discipline children has a painful racial subtext.
By Sarah Carr, April 8, 2014
When School Feels Like Jail
Isolation rooms and paddling: What some schools in the South are doing to keep students in line.
By Eli Hager November 11, 2015
State-sponsored terrorism continues!
Counties w/ the highest rates of lynching now have schools more likely to paddle Black children.
By Rebecca Klein, July 24, 2020