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Why are more and more kids on a journey that involves prison rather than college? What does Goffman say that we are ‘saddling poor kids’ with

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“With court fees, with probation and parole restrictions, with low-level warrants, we’re asking them to live in halfway houses and on house arrest, and we’re asking them to negotiate a police force that is entering poor communities of color, not for the purposes of promoting public safety, but to make arrest counts, to line city coffers.” This causes more and more kids to go to prison rather than college.

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