Students Who Fall in Between the Cracks, Friday, Jan 28

For many youth, particularly those young men of color, their fate in America is almost destined to be confined behind the black steel in our nations prisons. An overwhelmingly percentage of young Black men are incarcarated in a criminal justice system that often presumes that you are guilty until proven innocent. The amount of money that is poured into this system and into the prison system to house, feed and cloth these young men is not only big business its big and ugly. But what happens to these young men and women when they are release to a society that created those conditions in the first place. This is not a release of responsibility for many youth who need to be responsible for the decisions that they make and learn from them, but it is also taking a close examination of the historical and social racism that lives strong in an era of our first Black president.