Nicholas Fortuna is a managing partner at a law firm with 25 years of experience in complex litigation. He attended Touro Law Center, which has a program called the William Randolph Hearst Public Advocacy Center that connects law students with local nonprofits to work on pressing community issues. One such program is the Center for Restorative Practices, which aims to address the "school-to-prison pipeline" where minority students face criminalization and incarceration for minor infractions at disproportionate rates compared to white students. The Center provides advocacy and legal services to the minority juvenile community to seek alternatives to incarceration and expulsion.
"Canadian Charter Rights case and criminalization of polyamorous households"
Presentation made at the Poly Living 2010 conference in Seattle on Oct 23,2010.
"Canadian Charter Rights case and criminalization of polyamorous households"
Presentation made at the Poly Living 2010 conference in Seattle on Oct 23,2010.
This newsletter article summarizes the proposed Homeless Children and Youth Act of 2017 and analyzes its potential impacts. This is one of many weekly policy updates I published for the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities.
Divorce Statistics in Oregon and the Rest Of The United StatesGoldberg Jones
Breaking down the statistics surrounding divorce in Oregon, as well as the rest of the country, paints an intriguing picture of marriage in the United States.
This newsletter article summarizes the proposed Homeless Children and Youth Act of 2017 and analyzes its potential impacts. This is one of many weekly policy updates I published for the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities.
Divorce Statistics in Oregon and the Rest Of The United StatesGoldberg Jones
Breaking down the statistics surrounding divorce in Oregon, as well as the rest of the country, paints an intriguing picture of marriage in the United States.
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Forum on Public Policy
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―Education Or Incarceration: Zero Tolerance Policies And The School To
Prison Pipeline”
Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Program Director, Critical Studies of
Race/Ethnicity, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN
Abstract
In the past decade, there has been a growing convergence between schools and legal systems. The school to prison
pipeline refers to this growing pattern of tracking students out of educational institutions, primarily via ―zero
tolerance‖ policies, and , directly and/or indirectly, into the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems. The school
to prison pipeline has emerged in the larger context of media hysteria over youth violence and the mass
incarceration that characterize both the juvenile and adult legal systems.
While the school to prison pipeline is facilitated by a number of trends in education, it is most directly
attributable to the expansion of zero tolerance policies. These policies have no measureable impact on school safety,
but are associated with a number of negative effects‖ racially disproportionality, increased suspensions and
expulsions, elevated drop-out rates, and multiple legal issues related to due process. A growing critique of these
policies has lead to calls for reform and alternatives.
The School to Prison Pipeline Defined
“In the last decade, the punitive and overzealous tools and approaches of the modern criminal justice
system have seeped into our schools, serving to remove children from mainstream educational
environments and funnel them onto a one-way path toward prison….
The School-to-Prison Pipeline is one of the most urgent challenges in education today.”
(NAACP 2005)
The promise of free and compulsory public education in the United States is a promise of equal
opportunity and access to the ―American Dream‖. This ideal is billed as the great democratic
leveler of the proverbial playing field, and proclaims educational attainment as a source of
upward social mobility, expanded occupational horizons, and an engaged, highly literate
citizenry. This promise has proven to be an illusionary one, marred by a history of segregation-
de jure and de facto, by class and race disparities, and by gulfs in both funding and quality.
Despite some fleeting hope in the early years of the post-Civil Rights eras, the promise remains
elusive for many. Indeed, shifts in educational policy in the past 15 years have exacerbated the
inherent inequities in public education. Rather than creating an atmosphere of learning,
engagement and opportunity, current educational practices have increasingly blurred the
distinction between school and jail. The school to pri.
Immigrant Services Network of Austin Overview of Unaccompanied Alien Children...Angela-Jo Touza - Medina
ISNA is a working group of diverse community stakeholders and immigrant service providers operating together to coordinate efforts, increase public awareness, and inform policy, in order to better serve the immigrant community.
This is a summary of the information presented during the Special Information Session on "Unaccompanied Alien Children: A humanitarian crisis at our border" held on July 31, 2014, during which guest speakers provided updated information on the situation of and future projections for the flow of Unaccompanied Alien Children at the South Texas border. The original panel was moderated by Angela-Jo Touza-Medina, M.A., LL.M., ISNA Chair, and featured speakers were:
Amy Thompson, Immigration Policy Analyst, UT School of Social Work
Anne-Charlotte Patterson, Circle of Health International
Jonathan Ryan, Esq., Executive Director, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
Alexandra Minnaar, Attorney, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
Sara Ramirez, Executive Director, Catholic Charities of Central Texas
A video of this event can be viewed at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RtrY1rMW74
A Toolkit about SRO's (School Resource Officers) and Girls of Color: Building Relationships and Dispelling Racial Disparities Authors:
Monique W. Morris, Rebecca Epstein, and Aishatu Yusuf
National Black Women's Justice Initiative and the Center on Poverty and Inequality - Georgetown Law
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Problem Evaluation Paper 1
Problem Evaluation Paper
Alexis Lucca
CJA/355
04/11/2016
Gerald Norris
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Problem Evaluation Paper
Criminal justice can be said to be the system of governmental institutions and practices
aimed at holding up social control, crime mitigation and deterring, for example giving penalties
to criminals and also rehabilitating them. The career mostly falls in between legal and law
enforcement. Law enforcement is the ones dealing with the criminal behavior causes and societal
response to crime, for example, criminology, and forensic psychology. Policing also falls in this
category. The current issue in the criminal justice field is The Punishment and Criminalization of
young people and children (Martin & Philbin, 1980).
Many children aged 13 and 14 years in the United States who have undergone the
prosecution for adults had continued being sentenced to life imprisonment with no signs of
parole. However, the juveniles continue to being imprisoned despite the fact that their sentence is
unconstitutional hence leading to their death with no review and scrutiny or follow up.
According to (EJI) Equal Justice Initiative undertook in the year 2008, about seventy-three cases
showing that juveniles have died in prison through condemnation followed by minimal review
have been documented. The courts did not consider that the children were young making the
sentences imposed on them mandatory. Most of the children were combined with the crimes
which had been committed by adults and old teenagers leading to the involvement of two-thirds
of children of a younger age (Goodman & Grimming, 2007).
The difference between older teens and young children should then be observed. Below
are then some problems which make this situation to keep on growing. Influence from
dysfunctional backgrounds. This is because of exposure to violence, like mostly most of them
have been subjected to sexual abuse; they have been abandoned or have even been neglected.
Secondly, their parents are drug and dealers, addicts, sex workers and alcoholics. This then
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makes it clear that these children have been brought up in poor places with lethal violence, where
their parents were not able to afford safety, health and luxuries that every child would require.
It was therefore brought into conclusion by Oklahoma that when a person is a youth,
they are vulnerable to psychological damage and influence, and this has been taken to be more
than a chronological fact. Moreover, the children who have gone through this have some things
in common which disturb them. Protection and treatment from health care providers, police
failure, foster systems, family courts and security agencies of young children. Most of the crimes
committed by these children are mostly.
LGBTQ Criminalization and Criminal Justice ReformMarvin Webb
This infographic raises awareness about how LGBTQ people are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. It notes that biased policing and aggressive sentencing make LGBTQ people more likely to face time in prison, where they often face poor treatment and abuse. It also explores funding for LGBTQ criminalization and criminal justice reform, which, while still small, is growing.
LGBTQ Criminalization and Criminal Justice ReformMarvin Webb
This infographic raises awareness about how LGBTQ people are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. It notes that biased policing and aggressive sentencing make LGBTQ people more likely to face time in prison, where they often face poor treatment and abuse. It also explores funding for LGBTQ criminalization and criminal justice reform, which, while still small, is growing.
CGRS and Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) have collaborated to produce an important report urging lawmakers to reform the U.S. immigration system for migrant children who are coming to our borders with surging frequency. They come, often unaccompanied by an adult, in search of safety, stability, and protection. These children face a system that was created for adults, does not provide them legal counsel, and is not required to consider the child’s best interests, despite the potentially enormous impact of the proceedings on the child’s life and future.
Law student tawny holmes chosen for board of national association of the deafLawCrossing
Tawny Holmes completed her primary education from the Alabama School for the Deaf. In 1999, while enrolled at the Alabama School for the Deaf, Tawny helped her basketball team win the national championship.
The Touro Law Center’s Work to Break the “School-to-Prison” Pipeline
1.
2. Founder and managing partner of Allyn &
Fortuna, LLP, Nicholas Fortuna has been
actively practicing complex corporate
litigation for more than 25 years. A
distinguished alumnus of the Touro Law Center,
Nicholas Fortuna developed his legal
background by working directly in the
community.
For nearly 35 years, the Touro Law Center has
worked to engage law students with pressing
issues in the community through the William
Randolph Hearst Public Advocacy Center
(PAC).
3. Funded in part by the New York State Courts Access
to Justice Program, the PAC is the only organization
of its kind in the country directly connecting law
students with local nonprofits. The Center for
Restorative Practices, Inc. (a legal branch of Hope for
Youth), is one program under the PAC which works to
stem the “school-to-prison” pipeline that affects
many low-income communities.
The “school-to-prison” phenomenon refers to a trend
in which children from underprivileged backgrounds
are more likely to be prematurely criminalized and
incarcerated for minor school infractions.
4. According to data compiled by PBS, black
and Latino students are twice as likely not
to graduate high school as white children,
and approximately seven out of ten in-school
arrests or law referrals involve black
or Latino students. In order to fight this
trend, the Center for Restorative Practices
provides advocacy, guidance, and
representative services to the juvenile
minority community, seeking alternatives to
incarceration and expulsion.