Does She Talk About Arresting Kids Your Behave?

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Judge Donna scott davenport has been the juvenile court judge since two thousand when the position and the court was created. She's got an exceptional amount of power, but her credentials don't match personnal recordsa she claims to have been a police officer. It took her five tries to pass the bar, over nine years. On the bench, she is the one that sets the tone for the whole court.

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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