Writing prompts
Writing prompts
1. Changing minds
This article expresses concern on how the education system has changed. Initially, the aim was to provide equal education for both the rich and the poor. It was believed that education was going to be the key to success, and an educated society is an enlightened one. In a span of few years, the trend has changed. The idea that the people had when they were coming with the issues of school is now quite different (Fine, 2001).
Why is the amount of money being spent in prisons is quite high than that which is, being spent in schools? At first, the idea was to get as many people as possible educated, which is contrary to what is happening how. Why? Why have more prisons been built at the expense of academic institutions? Nobody gets concerned about what happens to the people in the prisons. When will the trend halt?
2. Arrested developments
The school to prison pipeline is an epidemic that is affecting schools across the nation. It is a condition whereby students involved in simple mistakes are chased out of school. Depending on the student's mistake, he or she may land into a juvenile correction center. These students are affected by the zero tolerance law. It is a situation whereby a student is not pardoned. Making mistakes means the end of the school for such kids. The virtues, which are significant to the case entails truthfulness and honesty, loyalty to the institution and responsibility to others.
The children that face such conditions rarely become better members of the society. Some of the questions that arise after reading this piece include; do such kids end up being criminals in their respective communities? What are some solutions for doing away with this school to the prison phenomenon? How is this phenomenon affecting the lives of students? What are some alternatives to changing student behaviors? How does prison often change the students?
3. Books not Bars
This film organizes the largest network of families which comprise of incarcerated youth. This group tries to champion for probable alternatives in place of the prison systems in California which are costly. At present, the group is focused in achieving the objective of closing the division of the juvenile justice. When it is done, they would then ensure that the youth are placed in community-based programs. Youth can be more productive while in the community centers than in a juvenile detention system. Ethical concerns usually attract legal interventions; a juvenile that is involved in an action that attracts ethical concerns is likely to face legal ramifications.
Are there efforts to end the misuse of the solitary confinement which is found in the California's youth prisons as well as in the county jails? Does the group aim at addressing the overcrowding issue observed in the adult prisons? Lastly, Books, not Bars aims to build the leadership of the families so that they can become an advocate for themselves.
References
Fine, M. (2001). Changing minds the impact of college in a maximum-security prison. New York, N.Y.: Ronald Ridgeway Inc.
McLaughlin, M. W. (2009). Between movement and establishment organizations advocating youth. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Row, J. (1979). Arrested development. Torpoint, Cornwall: Kawabata Press.
