For the money Mississippi spends each year to imprison a kid, it could have paid the annual tuition to a state college — twice.
One out of every 14 people in Mississippi’s prison system — about 1,181 — were arrested and detained before the age of 18, Southern Poverty Law Center calculated for a recent report. The practice of locking up minors especially harms Black families: 85% of these people who arrived to jail as children are Black.
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