1.0 link 212457 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-wright-edelman/santa-clara-county-probat_b_212457.html At the Children's Defense Fund's Cradle to Prison Pipeline^® Summit in Sacramento, California, earlier this year, we heard from young people from Missouri and California who are trying to get out of the pipeline with the help of caring adults. Here's the story of one of them: At 13, Diego Ramirez's violent, alcoholic father kicked him out of the house and onto the streets of one of San Jose, California's most dangerous neighborhoods. After a period of scraping for...

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