Girls usually enter the criminal justice system after abuse
After being kicked out of her house and expelled from school, a 16-year-old girl, Mea, learns to survive on her own.
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BEFORE THE RECORD: THE PIPELINES
BEFORE THE RECORD examines the pipelines criminalizing girls, particularly girls of color, which turns victims into offenders and administers punishments not given to white girls for the same behaviors.
90% of Louisiana foster youth face re-victimization. One senator believes that the state could do better by abolishing DCFS altogether.
Louisiana's child welfare system was built to protect children. For Black girls, it has become another door into the pipeline.
The classroom as first courtroom: Jada’s story
Jada and other Black girls often take the first steps toward the delinquency pipeline in the schoolroom, where teachers too often misread curiosity as sassiness—or as Louisiana law describes it, "willful disobedience."
The girlhood to prison pipeline: how Louisiana policy fails Black girls
The state of Louisiana is building a long-needed door for women leaving prison. But for girls leaving childhood detention, there is no threshold, much less a door.
