Texas Teen's Imprisonment Sparks Protests
"Civil rights activists are rallying around a 15-year-old black girl who has been in a high-security juvenile detention center for a year for shoving a hall monitor at her school and whose sentence was just extended for what authorities call possession of contraband: an extra pair of socks and a plastic foam cup."
Did they think she was going to tie the two socks together and use them as a rope to escape her prison cell? Perhaps she was going to tear jagged edges on the foam cup and shank some muthafucka?
The Texas prison system grew faster than any other prison system in the country during the 1990s, adding nearly one out of every 5 prisoners to the nation's prison boom. How did they do this? By incarcerating one shoving, sock wearing, foam cup carrying badass at a time.
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