Students who are suspended, even just once, are 3 1/2 times more likely to become incarcerated than students who are not suspended.
(Coalition for Juvenile Justice)
A study of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice suggests that just being suspended one time correlates with a risk for becoming incarcerated that is as much as three and a half times the risk faced by students who were not suspended. This is an urgent issue considering that four out of five new juveniles detained between 1983 and 1997 were youths of color. According to the Justice Policy Institute, in 2000 there were almost a third more African American men in prison and jail (791,600) than in universities and colleges (603,300).
(Sources: Coalition for Juvenile Justice; Casey Foundation; Washington DC Justice Policy Institute)
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