If we know that the overwhelming majority of people in our prisons around the United States are Black and brown and that they did not graduate high school, how can we continue to see those reductions in arrests and incarcerations by the school playing a better role in the process?
Demings questions the role of schools in reducing arrests and incarceration rates.
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