Judge davenport issued a memo two law enforcement in two thousand three that said, upon the arrest of a ild they must be taken to the detention center. This is pretty astonishing to have a judge telling law enforcement what to do. That is not normal. But she did it, and it speaks to her level of power and what she thinks is her authority. It was inevitable at some point this thing was going to go so off the rails that this was going to happen. The ghosts of the confederacy are all over this city and this county. And it is ruled by a kind of old boy's network.
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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