David Hogg: Parkland HS Has Become A Prison; "Hundreds" Of Racist PoliceReal Clear Politics, Mar 23, 2018, Tim Hains
Marjory Stoneman Douglas student and #NeverAgain activist David Hogg told Axios founder Mike Allen at an event in Washington on Friday that his high school feels "like a prison" since the shooting last month, with "hundreds of police officers" patrolling the campus.
He said this is a problem because the police are racist against black students: "What I'm very concerned about is the racial disparity between white and black students. For example, black students get suspended at a rate three times higher than white students."
"When you have all these new police officers and resource officers coming into schools, what I'm worried is going to happen is we're going to increase the school-to-prison pipeline, which disproportionately affects students of color and lower social status," Hogg warned.
"And the other thing that is terrifying to me is, many of these students when they get into prison... They can't get a job and have to commit to a life of crime," he added. "What happens is politicians like Gov. Rick Scott are lobbied by the private prison industry, that are private prisons paid for by the government essentially to keep these people in. That's not how we're going to fix this situation."
Hogg said prison needs to be rehabilitative and not just punishment. "These are American citizens," he said. "Right now it is disgusting."
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