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Bill Lee: “But what you would see, though, with young men of color, this becomes a pipeline from the cradle to the prison because…”

On the recordMarch 4, 2013
But what you would see, though, with young men of color, this becomes a pipeline from the cradle to the prison because majority of them never come back to school, and they end up in behavior that sends them into juvenile hall and then into prison.
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Bill Lee
Republican · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of violence on young men of color and the school-to-prison pipeline.

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