Cja/385 Assignment Alternative Solution Proposal

Current Criminal Justice Policy: Resolution 115-Closing the School to Prison PipelineStudent NameCourseDateInstructorResolution 115: Eliminating the School-to-Prison PipelineThe school to prison pipeline is an inappropriate tendency to withdraw disadvantaged children and young adults from public schools and incarcerate them because of the current extreme school rules such as zero tolerance measures. The school to prison pipeline mainly comes as a result of zero tolerance policies, police in schools, and school disturbance laws. Most of the victims either have learning disabilities or have a record of neglect, poverty or abuse and therefore additional education and counseling would benefit them tremendously. Instead, the law punishes, isolates, and pushes them out of the education system. The strict consequences of the pipeline such as high incarceration rates to minors forced the government to revise the policy and implement the much required change.Policy Identification: Resolution 115- Eliminating the School to Prison PipelineThe school to prison pipeline specialized on students of color, LGBTQ students, English Language Learners, and those with disabilities. The pipeline system gave them harsher punishments for minor school infractions than the white peers received