The Cradle to Prison Pipeline campaign is a national and community crusade to engage families, youth, community leaders and institutions and those in power in every sector in the development of healthy, educated children. The Campaign advances policies that put children on track to productive adulthood and opposes those that criminalize children at younger and younger ages.

Watch a video of Harvard University's Charles Ogletree's conversation with CDF President Marian Wright Edelman at the Aspen Institute from July 2009. Mrs. Edelman discusses her work in ending America's pipeline to prison and discusses the social and economic conditions that have created this system where millions of children are born without hope for a better future.

(Note: This video clip is just the first 10 minutes of their conversation. To view the entire interview, click on "Watch Full Program" once this clip has completed.)