DETAINMENT AND INTERNMENT
"Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" Recently, a six-year old Indiana boy was arrested after kicking his principal in the leg and threatening to kill him. The child, who had been suspended before for kicking and biting, was taken to a local police station and charged with battery and intimidation. Instead of calling the child's parents when he began to act out, school officials called the police, claiming that putting him in the system was the best option. Unfortunately, for some students - especially males of color - their "acting out is often judged more harshly than their peers and they are not only suspended at higher rates (for the same offensives), but they are also incarcerated at higher rates as well.