correspondent adam may with the smoak. >> how do you think the war on baltimore? >> i think that the way in which the country conducted the war on good. >>> is cutting class a crime? it is in texas, where "america tonight"s lori jane gliha found more than 100,000 kids landed in criminal court just school. >> it was tiny. having to go up to the podium, and, like, look up, was scary >>> thanks for joining us, i'm when. the drive to make our nation's schools better, and students better has led to more tests, curriculum standards being tougher and in some districts hard-line efforts to keep kids in class. in wyoming and texas it brought some students, even young ones, into the harsh reality of adult criminal court. that is right, cutting classes become a crime. "america tonight"s lori jane gliha investigates now - the tough stand against truancy. >> i'm thinking, you know, what's going to happen to me, am i going to gaol. i kept asking them. gaol." >> reporter: ty said he was in seventh grade when he got his first summons to attend court. >> having to go to the podium

and it scares me >>> before becoming mayor of baltimore, kurt smoak was a prosecutor and said there isinitely a bias in the federal justice system against the poor. >> the criminal justice system is bias against low income people. that is the issue. to the extent we have more african-american men that are low income, it will have a negative impact. two guys committing a charge with the same crime, one who has resources gets out on bail. the other is stuck in the system. one gets a private attorney one gets a public defend,er, no offense. we know that resources make a big difference in the criminal justice system. the system is bias against those that are low income, and that has a terrible impact on the african-american community. >> they are disadvantaged in income, jobs. they are disadvantaged in education. i don't think they are treated in a negative way merely because of that. but it means that we don't have the programs and services and other types of things that are necessary to bring them from that disadvantaged situation to a positive situation. >>> and a lack of fathers in the

correspondent adam may with the smoak. >> how do you think the war on baltimore? >> i think that the way in which the country conducted the war on good. >>> is cutting class a crime? it is in texas, where "america tonight"s lori jane gliha found more than 100,000 kids

correspondent adam may with the smoak. >> how do you think the war on baltimore?k that the way in which the country conducted the war on good. >>> is cutting class a crime? it is in texas, where "america tonight"s lori jane gliha found more than 100,000 kids landed in

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