![How We're Priming Some Kids for College and Others for Prison](https://socialjusticeresourcecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/How-Were-Priming-Some-Kids-for-College.jpg)
A TED Talk featuring sociologist Alice Goffman who spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In her talk she asks, “Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?” Watch now.