Childrens' Defense Fund Report Documents America's "Cradle to Prison Pipeline"

America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline

This CDF report documents America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, an urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty and race that puts Black boys at a one in three lifetime risk of going to jail, and Latino boys at a one in six lifetime risk of the same fate. Tens of thousands of children and teens are sucked into the Pipeline each year.

The report includes:
an overview of the major factors behind the Pipeline through stories and statistics and longer term policy goals.
Time Magazine Steve Liss’s moving photographs that show the faces of children in the Pipeline.
Julia Cass and Connie Curry’s case studies describing how the Pipeline affects children on the ground in Mississippi and Ohio at one point in time.
calls for the hard work and persistence needed to build a transforming movement to finish the work begun by the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King’s Poor People’s Campaign to put the social and economic foundations beneath all children and families.
descriptions of some promising approaches to help keep children out of the Pipeline and research tables and state-by-state data of key child indicators

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