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OA536: The Tennessee Judge Who Keeps Jailing Kids

Opening Arguments

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The Story of a Fourth-Graded Child in a Middle School

Donna scott davenport was elected juvenile court judge in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Davenport believes in maximum discipline from the police and she's a white woman. Children as young as eight were taken off of school busses to be arrested for breaking up a fight that involved several students. The children were then held in prison pending the entering of their pleas. And by the way, these children were thenheld in prison.

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