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Cradle to Prison Pipeline^® Campaign

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A Black boy born in 2001 has a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison in his lifetime a Latino boy a 1 in 6 chance of the same fate.

CDF’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline^® Campaign is a national call to action to stop the funneling of tens of thousands of youth, predominantly minorities, down life paths that often lead to arrest, conviction, incarceration and, in some cases, death. Race and poverty are the major factors underpinning the Pipeline. The problems, policies and systems that feed the pipeline are a result of human choices:

• lack of access to health and mental health care
• child abuse and neglect
• lack of quality childhood education
• failing schools
• zero tolerance school discipline policies
• unsupported community institutions
• neighborhoods saturated with drugs and violence
• a culture that glorifies excessive consumption, violence and triviality
• rampant racial and economic disparities in child and youth serving systems
• tougher sentencing guidelines
• too few positive alternatives to the streets after school and in the summer months
• too few positive role models and mentors in the home, community, social and cultural life

We created the Pipeline and we have the power, knowledge and will to dismantle it. The need is urgent.

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