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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMississippi Agrees to Stop Handcuffing Students to Poles
(JACKSON, Miss.) Students will no longer be handcuffed to poles in a Jackson, Mississippi public school.
The Capital City Alternative School, Mississippis second largest school district, reached the agreement with the Southern Poverty Law Center in U-S District Court on Friday. They agreed to immediately stop the practice of handcuffing their students to poles and other objects, and must immediately place new methods of discipline in dealing with non-criminal behaviors.
According to the settlement, no student under the age of 13 can be handcuffed. Students over the age of 13 may be handcuffed only for crimes, but must not be handcuffed to stationary objects.
Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center, says the way the school dealt with discipline in the school was tantamount to child abuse, We have some students who have gone on record to say its happened to them three or four days in a row. We know there are some students who actually had to eat their lunch with one hand handcuffed to a railing.
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Mississippi Agrees to Stop Handcuffing Students to Poles (Original Post)
limpyhobbler
May 2012
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See I would have thought this is something that already would have been resolved a long time ago.
limpyhobbler
May 2012
#3
Jaroslav Walenski, who recently moved to Jackson, applauds this decision...nt
SidDithers
May 2012
#6
cali
(114,904 posts)1. jeezus. the sadistic stupidity never stops in this country.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)3. See I would have thought this is something that already would have been resolved a long time ago.
Goes to show what I know
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)10. I would have thought ...
... that this NEVER would have seemed like a good plan to begin with.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)2. Seems like that would violate a whole bunch of fire codes
How stupid. Not to mention cruel and inhumane.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)4. What about tasering ? n/t
Webster Green
(13,905 posts)5. WTF?!
Unbelievable!
This just re-affirms my promise to never set foot in that part of our country ever again.
If I was offered a job in Mississippi, helping Victoria's Secret models to dress for photo shoots, and it paid a trillion dollars a week, I would turn it down without even thinking about it.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)6. Jaroslav Walenski, who recently moved to Jackson, applauds this decision...nt
Sid
zbdent
(35,392 posts)11. I was wondering where they got all the immigrants for this ...
is there some sort of exchange program?
'cause there's a bunch of people we can send over there ...
struggle4progress
(118,228 posts)7. "... students were routinely handcuffed for dress code violations."
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)13. Sounds like ground for assault and false imprisonment charges to me
enough
(13,255 posts)8. More good work by the SPLC! (nt)
marmar
(77,056 posts)9. How 20th century of them.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)12. This falls under the "you just can't make this stuff" up category.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)14. They switched to using Czechs