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Two ACLU leaders will play leading roles in a program examining "Graduation or Incarceration -- the School to Prison Pipeline" on Friday May 13 at 5 p.m. at Capital Community College in Hartford.
ACLU-CT Legal Director Sandra Staub will lead a Know your Rights Workshop for Youth at 5 pm. ACLU Northeast Region Director Benetta M. Standly will keynote a program at 6 p.m. titled Criminalizing Rather than Educating Youth. She will be joined by Marta Bentham, director of family services and ombudsman for the Hartford Public Schools. A student panel will follow.
The program is sponsored by the TRYBE Force for Peace [Truth & Reconciliation for Youth and Adults in Brotherhood and Sisterhood for Empowerment of All] founded by Cedric Shaw of Bloomfield.
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The national ACLU and the ACLU of Connecticut collaborated three years ago to produce a study of use of police in Connecticut schools which showed a growing tendency to arrest students for school infractions. Read the earlier story: ACLU Report Reveals Arrests At Hartford-Area Schools On Rise
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National Report: A Disturbing New Trend: Jailing Poor Black Mothers for Trying to Educate Their Children
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The college is in the former G. Fox & Co. building. If you haven't been there since it was renovated for the college, you'll be pleasantly surprised. The program will be in the former Auerbach Hall on the top floor.
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