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Mississippi Schools Banned From Handcuffing Students To Poles For Dress Code Violations
Public schools in Jackson, Miss., will no longer be allowed tohandcuff students to poles or other objects, under a settlement with the Southern Poverty Law Center reached in U.S. District Court.
Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said the Capital City Alternatives school in Mississippi's largest district must immediately stop handcuffing students, a practice used to punish even such things as dress-code violations.
"The focus should be education, not incarceration and it's tantamount to child abuse when children are handcuffed to railings for something as simple as not having the appropriate belt or inappropriate shoe strings," Owens said.
The way students had been disciplined in the school was abusive, she said. READMORE
