Judge davenport is still on the bench for the time being. The filter system was stopped by a federal judge who issued an injunction in two thousand 17. So does that mean it's less likely 11 kids are going to get arrested for witnessing a fight in a schoolyard to morrow? Yes, i think it does. But generations of children have been dramatized by these policies. And as we point out in the story, almost no consequences have come to the adults. I want the children that come in fron of me to leave better. Thann, then they they came in. I want em to leaving better. Ah, then they came in,. Then they
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.”
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