Do We Know How Many Children Judge Davenport Put Behind Bars?

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Do we know how many children she's put behind bars? For the last your data is available, state wide, the average number of cases in juvenile court that end up in detention is five %. In this county, the number was forty eight%. So that's like the smoking gun. And this is all happening because of judge davenport. Is she appointed or elected? She is elected. She has been elected three times, and she is up for re election this summer.

For 11 years, a Tennessee judge sent kids to jail for a crime that doesn’t exist. Nashville Public Radio’s Meribah Knight explains why that judge is still in charge of “juvenile justice.”

Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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