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Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign

We face an urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty and race that puts a Black boy born in 2001 at a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison in his lifetime, and a Latino boy at a 1 in 6 risk of the same fate.

CDF's Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign is a national call to action to stop the funneling of tens of thousands of youths down life paths that often lead to arrest, conviction, incarceration and premature death.

 

CDF-Texas Launches Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign

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Brandi Brown

Texas Youth Leadership Development Director

Laura Guerra-Cardus, M.D.

Texas Associate Director

In early 2008, CDF-Texas and the University of Houston Center for Children, Law & Policy co-convened over 700 advocates from across the state for a Texas Summit to identify effective strategies to dismantle what CDF has termed the Cradle to Prison Pipeline.

Over the Summer, CDF-Texas convened a series of taskforce meetings to develop policy recommendations in six key issue areas emerging from the Summit:

  1. Early Childhood Education
  2. Educational, Social, and Emotional Youth Development
  3. Children's Health and Mental Health Care
  4. Child Abuse Prevention and Protection
  5. The Juvenile Justice System
  6. Reducing Child Poverty

 

In the Fall of 2008, CDF-Texas reconvened with more than 500 stakeholders -- community leaders, attorneys, judges, juvenile justice and child welfare professionals, elected officials and youth advocates -- for a one-day forum to present taskforce outcomes.

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