Shaquanda Cotton (sometimes incorrectly referred to in the media as "Shaquandra" or "Shaquana") is an African-American girl who, in March 2006, at the age of 15, was sentenced to an indeterminate time (not to exceed her 21st birthday) in the Texas Youth Commission's juvenile detention facilities for shoving a teacher's assistant at her high school in Paris, Texas, U.S.A.
Read more about Shaquanda Cotton: The Sentence, The Incident, Prior To The Incident, The Criminal Charge, The Controversy, Early Release, Appeal
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“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)