Texas Juvenile Inmates

Texas was the only southern state to see a net gain in its black population during the first half of the 20th century, right? That's part of why they're building these facilities is they have this huge influx of black and Hispanic citizens moving to the state. This causes a backlash from white Jim Crow supporting citizens who don't like seeing all of these kids who are not white in what they think of as their cities. Police do the thing that police do, which is response to the demands of the middle class white people. And they start sweeping juke joints, which is generally how the places they sweep to arrest black kids are described.