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Real Family Values: 9 Ways to Support Families in Hard Times

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sarah van Gelder

For years, the Right dominated the dialogue on "family values." But what does it really mean to support families, especially in a time of economic har...

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Expanding the Promise: Will the Cradle-to-Career Model Overtake the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline?

Andrew Wilkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem Children Zone, Cradle to Prison, Education, Cradle-to-Career, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Religion News
Andrew Wilkes

Let us take this weekend to remind our houses of worship -- to remind America -- that the itinerary of impoverishment and incarceration is not the last word for our children.

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Children Drop Out and Into Lives of Poverty and Imprisonment

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Poverty, At-Risk Youth, Education, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Impact News
Marian Wright Edelman

Youths who drop out of school represent a colossal loss to our communities and nation. The dropout crisis is too costly to our children, communities, and nation to let it persist.

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Jasmine Lynn: No Hiding Place from Gun Violence

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Youth Violence, Gun Control, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Impact News
Marian Wright Edelman

In a culture where guns are far too easily available, a simple argument changed multiple lives forever.

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New York's Juvenile Prisons Are a Crime

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth, Abuse, Child Abuse, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Criminal Justice System, Prison, New York Times, Criminal Justice, Department of Justice, Juvenile Justice System, Sexual Abuse, Justice Department, New York, Children's Defense Fund, Juvenile Justice, Politics, New York News
David A. Love

If you can judge a society by the way it treats its children, then New York fails in a big way. In fact, the Empire State should be found guilty of child abuse and neglect.

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Santa Clara County Probation Program's Alternative to Warehousing Youths

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice, Santa Clara, Youth, Correctional Facilities, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

The programs cognitive therapeutic approach directs young people to confront the choices they've made and develop empathy for their victims.

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A Look at Race, Incarceration, and American Values

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenn Loury, Criminal Justice, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

The current incarceration crisis is creating a cycle too many children and youths are finding difficult to escape and that is ravaging black families and communities.

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The Growing Problem of Over-Policing Our Schools

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Violence in Schools, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, New York, Nyclu, Policing Schools, Healthy Living News
Marian Wright Edelman

The over-policing of public schools -- is one more threat to our nation's children at risk of entering the pipeline to prison.

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National Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit This Week

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: California, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Juvenile Justice, Healthy Living News
Marian Wright Edelman

The disparity in spending on youth incarceration compared to spending for education reveals how perverse the California's priorities have become.

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Sentencing Children to Die in Prison

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juvenile Justice System, Equal Justics Initiative, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Children's Defense Fund, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

The EJI study found 73 cases in the United States where 13- and 14-year-olds have been sentenced to life without parole -- in other words, sentenced to die in prison.

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