"Public schools in Jackson, Miss., will no longer be allowed to
handcuff students to poles or other objects, under a settlement with
the Southern Poverty Law Center reached in U.S. District Court.

Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty
Law Center, said the Capital City Alternatives school in Mississippi's
largest district must immediately stop handcuffing students, a
practice used to punish even such things as dress-code violations.

"The focus should be education, not incarceration and it's tantamount
to child abuse when children are handcuffed to railings for something
as simple as not having the appropriate belt or inappropriate shoe
strings," Owens said.

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