Sending Kids To Prison

Upon completing high school, most are meet with the excitement to attend college and want to make some sort of impact on the world. These young kids, or adults, are met with complications down their path which isn’t unusual, most tend to move past these barriers and strive because of them. But one barrier/institution that young high school students face including college students, is anything closely related to prison. This topic is something Alice Goffman tries to cover how we are indeed setting some students up for college and others prison. Alice brings some evidence to the table to try and prove her statement and what she has noticed going on in today's society. Sending kids to prison is costly according to Alice and her sources. Costing our taxes payers on average around forty-thousand dollars per student. Forty-thousand dollars that could be put towards helping them receive a better education more focused on their specific needs. Not only is it …show more content…
She would then proceed to move into this community and try to get a footing into how these particular people live, how they treat one another, and how the authorities operate. Within her 6 years of living in this community she was able to witness over 52 arrest with 14 of them ending with the suspect getting hurt. She would get first row seats to how the authorities would countilessly beat the suspect even after he's been apprehended then placed in handcuffs. Also getting to bare witness to how children saw police and treated their suspects they came up with a game chase with one child playing the officer and the other being the suspect. What was saddening, was how brutal the kids played with one another trying to mirroring what the authorities did in apprehending some of their suspects. This went from confiscating valuables to shouting horrible words at the child playing the