This special preview from Season Two of The Freedom Files, "Freedom to Learn: School to Prison Pipeline" explores the policies that push young people, especially youth of color, off the path toward a high school diploma and instead toward incarceration. The "school to prison" pipeline gets created when trivial classroom misbehavior is criminalized, when “problem” children get warehoused in substandard alternative programs, and when teenagers enmeshed in the juvenile justice system face obstacles to obtaining quality education. This episode maps out the different stages of the pipeline, and shows how individual children become trapped in it.

The Freedom Files
Season Two of the series premieres this fall with a slate of nine programs on the death penalty, same-sex marriage, same-sex parenting, voting rights, immigrants’ rights, surveillance, sex education, the school-to-prison pipeline, and unlawful imprisonment, torture and habeas corpus.  Filmmaker and political activist Robert Greenwald, whose ground-breaking political films include Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, is the executive producer of the series. Richard Ray Perez, an award-winning documentary filmmaker (Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election), lead the production team for Season Two.
 

The American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union works daily in courts, legislatures and communities to protect the individual liberties, rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. Founded in 1920, the ACLU is a nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization with more than 550,000 members. It has offices in all 50 states and employs more than 150 permanent staff attorneys and 2,000 cooperating attorneys, litigating more than 6,000 cases annually.

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