Tennessee County Reportedly Illegally Jailed Hundreds Of Children, Charging Some With Crimes That Don’t Exist

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Tennessee County Reportedly Illegally Jailed Hundreds Of Children, Charging Some With Crimes That Don’t Exist
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Children as young as seven have been sent to jail.

For years, a suburban county near Nashville, Tennessee, illegally locked up children and in at least one instance used bogus charges to justify it, according to aIn Rutherford County, Tennessee, 48% of children whose cases were referred to juvenile court endedAccording to ProPublica, Rutherford County, Tennessee, used what county officials called a"filter system" starting in 2008, which left it up to the discretion of jailers to decide whether a child arrested and taken to the...

In a 2016 incident that sparked outrage, the policies were used to arrest 11 elementary school children—all Black—with six being handcuffed and four being locked up in jail after processing.

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