justice?

not in this case (if indeed it's true shaquanda's sentence was extended for having the HORRID contraband of an extra pair of socks AND a foam cup)

i don't know if she's guilty of pushing the hall monitor or not. if she is, i agree she should have been punished. BUT A YEAR? then MORE TIME for socks? if her name was buffy instead of shaquanda i don't think i'd be posting an article because i don't think there would be any issues.

Texas Teen's Imprisonment Sparks Protests

By Sylvia Moreno

AUSTIN, March 28 -- Civil rights activists are rallying around a 15-year-old black girl who has been in a high-security juvenile detention center for a year for shoving a hall monitor at her school and whose sentence was just extended for what authorities call possession of contraband: an extra pair of socks and a plastic foam cup.
One of 4,562 juveniles in the Texas Youth Commission's custody, Shaquanda Cotton may have remained incarcerated in obscurity, fretted over by her mother and a handful of supporters in her home town of Paris, in northeast Texas near the Oklahoma border. But a Chicago Tribune article has prompted an inquiry by the Rev. Al Sharpton and spurred several hundred protesters to travel this week from Dallas to the courthouse where Cotton was convicted. ........

..............Cotton and her supports also say a white judge who gave a white 14-year-old girl probation after she was convicted of burning down her family's home treated Shaquanda unfairly.
Representatives of the Paris school district and the criminal justice system adamantly dispute the allegations. Lamar County Judge Chuck Superville, who sentenced Cotton and the arsonist, was not available for comment. But a spokesman for the Lamar County district attorney's office addressed questions...............