bees-in-the-machine:ineffable-writer: neil-gaiman: wilwheaton: Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees
bees-in-the-machine:ineffable-writer: neil-gaiman: wilwheaton: Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.This woman needs to be kicked off the bench and disbarred. Then, she must be prosecuted for abuse of power.https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist Read the article. It left me shaken. This is incredibly good journalism. I can’t speak for ProPublica, but the reporting is solid. They even describe their methodology at the bottom of the page.The story is horrifying. My only complaint with the article is that they don’t summarize very much.TL;DR The main case they cover is the arrest of 10 kids for spectating a schoolyard fight. But more generally police in this county were arresting droves of black and brown children, often arresting them without charge, convicting them of sometimes incoherent crimes, and jailing them in 48% of cases (usually the boys). This has been happening since 2000, but In 2016, they jailed 986 children for 7,932 days. (The maximum allowed is 24h per child). Often extra jail time was for swearing at Davenport for how she treated other children. Unrelatedly, she also once forced through an adoption even though 2 higher courts overruled her and said the kid should go back to her parents.There’s just so much stuff the article gets into. Like her lying on employment records. -- source link
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