This report calls on state and municipal leaders to examine policies and practices that lead to discriminatory treatment of black Rhode Islanders, from elementary school through adulthood. The report offers a brief and systematic examination of how interconnected disparities lead to a lifetime of unequal treatment and exacerbate problems of systemic racism and mass incarceration.
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ACLU Report Highlights Racial Disparities In School-To-Prison Pipeline
The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island today issued a report calling on state and municipal leaders to examine policies, practices and procedures that lead to discriminatory treatment of black Rhode Islanders, from elementary school through adulthood. The ACLU report, titled “The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Black and White,” offers a brief but systematic examination of racial disparities in Rhode Island, and how those interconnected disparities can lead to a lifetime of unequal treatment. The report, presented in a series of twelve charts, comes as the nation celebrates Black History Month, and grapples with recent events that have pushed racial disparity issues back into the forefront.
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