The latest article in Teen Vogue's series, Fostered or Forgotten, examines yet another pipeline which pushes young people into prison, in this case from the child welfare system into the juvenile and adult justice systems.
Decades of research and advocacy have pushed concepts like the “school-to-prison” pipeline into the public’s consciousness. Advocates continue to reveal still more ways youth are funneled into the prison industrial complex, such as the “abuse-to-prison” pipeline described in a 2016 report from The Center for Children’s Law and Policy. The foster care-to-prison pipeline is the latest iteration in a decades-long national trend which criminalizes adolescence and worsens existing disparities and discrimination.
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