The New Jim Crow: The School to Prison Pipeline

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and his mother had to work two jobs. He was also having a hard time in school. When he hit his teenage years, he was introduced to the gang life, and from there, everything went downhill; he was sentenced to life in prison. Just as Rios mentions that “Juan’s case is an extreme example of recently implemented, punitive criminal and juvenile justice policies [that show] how sentencing laws profoundly impact black and Latino youth who do not commit serious and violent crime (Rios 98).” It is obvious that he is only one of many people who has undergone oppression and is a victim of the New Jim Crow. “Policies push youth deeper into the criminal justice system, routing them directly into what the Harvard Civil Rights Project has called the ‘school to prison pipeline’ (Losen and Wald, 2003) (Rios 99).” Consequently, this serves as a classic example of an urban underprivileged minority who struggles with the established system of education. The system lacks to provide children with a ...

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