Community Town Hall Forum: Saggy Pants & The Criminalization of our Youth
This forum is to discuss the criminalization of our youth and the dangerous implications via mass incarceration, school to prison pipeline, etc.
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MA & Saggy Pants: This Takes ‘Fashion Police’ to a Whole New Level
A little-known law in Massachusetts involving openly “lewd and lascivious behavior” is the lynchpin of a new war on saggy pants from the Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts (BMHAM). BMHAM is trying to use this law—which says we can arrest, fine and even imprison someone for “gross” public exposure—to crack down on people who wear their pants too low.
New campaign to Arrest & Jail Black & Brown boys for sagging pants
New campaign in Massachusetts to Arrest & Jail Black & Brown boys for sagging pants