school to prison pipeline

If you follow State of Opportunity regularly, you may have seen or heard us talk about the school-to-prison pipeline. It’s a nationwide pattern of…

Last week, President Obama commuted the prison sentences of 61 people serving time under "outdated and unduly harsh sentencing laws" for drug offenses.The…

If you're 17 and you commit a crime in Michigan, you are automatically sentenced as an adult. You can't even vote yet, and you're sentenced as an adult.…

Governor Snyder recently signed into a law a set of rules about absences from school. These laws don’t affect every kid and family. But families living in…

Michigan is on yet another list of dubious distinction. This time, the state has some of the highest rates of school suspensions in the country. A…

Pay now or pay later? I feel like that could be the unofficial tag line for our State of Opportunity project. The "pay now or pay later" question comes up…

Infowire fills the information gap and meets the news needs of families struggling to make ends meet.Get all Infowire alerts by texting INFOWIRE to…

In 2012, the US Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional. That doesn't mean it's impossible for a young…

The school-to-prison pipeline is a nationwide pattern of students being pushed out of schools and into the criminal justice system.Groups like the ACLU…

It's hard to decide how to process the recent spate of kids-going-to-jail-for-doing-things-kids-do stories.Over the past week or so, outrage has swelled…