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Mass Incarceration
Interrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline Campaign
The school-to-prison pipeline is a term describing how children and youth of color are rerouted and funneled away from educational success toward the criminal justice system when they are overpoliced and punished in schools.
To successfully interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, we must resist efforts to criminalize children of color and move toward comprehensive, community-rooted solutions that offer genuine safety for all children.
Interrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline Resources
Resources to get involved, learn more, and take action.
- Watch the Video: Never Give Up – Cynthia and Michelle’s Faithful Fight Against Mass Incarceration
- To access additional resources, please log into our Members & Leaders Portal. If you don’t have an account, you can create one for free.
Action: Tell Congress: Ban Corporal Punishment In Our Schools!
Children deserve safe and supportive schools where they can learn and grow. The use of corporal punishment in schools undermines student safety and well-being. United Women in Faith joins leading organizations across the country to urge passage of The Protecting Our Students in Schools Act of 2025, a federal bill which would prohibit the use of corporal punishment in schools receiving federal funding.
Ask your Representative to co-sponsor The Protecting Our Students in Schools Act (HR 3265).
Action: Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools
When we choose criminalization over counseling in our schools, we are doing the very thing Jesus warns against: causing little ones to stumble. By responding with suspensions, expulsions, or even arrests, we increase trauma, fuel cycles of poverty, and push students out of school and into the justice system. The Gospel calls us to interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. The federal government can do this by passing The Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act.
Visit our action page and send an email encouraging your Representative to co-sponsor this important bill.
Action: Tell Congress to Support The Ending PUSHOUT Act
The Ending PUSHOUT Act (HR 2738 / S 1338) is designed to address the alarming rates at which children of color, particularly girls of color, are disproportionately disciplined and criminalized in schools.
The Ending PUSHOUT Act would help our schools become safer for all students, especially those who are most at risk of being pushed out.
Please consider asking your legislators to co-sponsor this bill — or thanking them if they’re already signed on as cosponsors.
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