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Breaking the School to Prison Pipeline: Springfield reduces in-school arrests, but is it enough?

“After that, honestly, my life took a rough turn,” Olivares said. “I started hanging around with the wrong guys. I wasn’t taking school too seriously. I was looking at school in a negative manner; I was looking at police in a negative manner. I was certainly a lost teenager.” – Armando Olivares, 23, talking about his in-school arrest at age 14.

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