All the kids are black, right? Yes? And everyone else in this picture is white. The woman who investigated the case who decided to take out the petitions and really spear headed these arrests was white. For a while, police were telling the principal that she couldn't call the parents. This a community where people be no multiple generations have cycled through the juvenile cord,. So it's just how business is conducted there.
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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