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Tennessee judge who routinely jailed children announced she's retiring, but traumatized former detainees say she's leaving the bench to 'avoid guilt'
One of the former detainees who was arrested and jailed as a minor said Judge Donna Davenport appea…
Katie Balevic
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Fentanyl spread through air vents at an Ohio detention center, sending 7 people, including corrections officers, to a hospital, authorities say
The victims were identified as three corrections officers and four juveniles. Authorities are condu…
Taylor Ardrey
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Children detained in South Carolina live with feces on floors, mold on walls, and roaches in their food, suit says
The suit, filed by the NAACP and other groups, allege nightmarish conditions where children are rou…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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A Michigan court has released the 15-year-old girl who was jailed for failing to complete her homework
Grace was released from a juvenile detention center in Michigan and reunited with her mother Friday…
Taylor Ardrey
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'For her own good': A Michigan judge said she won't release a 15-year-old Black girl who was jailed for not completing her online homework
The teen was jailed for allegedly violating her probation when she failed to meet a requirement to …
Taylor Ardrey
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A 13-year-old Florida girl is suing her school and Instagram after she was wrongfully detained for 11 days after a classmate reportedly framed her
Police said Nia Whims' 12-year-old classmate framed her, creating a fake Instagram account to imper…
Michelle Mark
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A Tennessee judge created and used policies - and a nonexistent law - to jail children, investigation finds
"I'm very harsh. I like to think I'm fair, but I'm tough," the judge, who touted her record as a di…
Katie Balevic
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Virginia juvenile detention center new coronavirus hotspot
Experts say that prisons and jails can act as petri-dishes for the coronavirus. Social distancing …
PTI
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'Stuck in a system': Former child detainees speak out about a Tennessee juvenile detention center and the controversial judge who put them there
"Juvenile was not rehabilitation. It was more like torture," one person who served time in the Ruth…
Katie Balevic
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A Black teen didn't do her online schoolwork during the pandemic. A judge sent her to juvenile detention.
Black youth in Michigan are incarcerated more than 4 times as often as white youth. The governor ha…
Jodi S. Cohen
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A 30-year-old has free bled since she was 15. The detention center where she lived for 3 years banned tampons.
Shaylyn Wade didn't realize there was a tampon shortage, as she's been free bleeding with toilet pa…
Julia Naftulin
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A Louisiana security guard is accused of helping 3 juvenile inmates escape
Authorities said they detained security guard Victoria Tune, 21, and the three inmates at a Houston…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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A 17-year-old white supremacist apologized for her plot to attack a Black Georgia church and was sentenced to juvenile detention
Caitlyn Pye had a notebook detailing her plan to hurt Black churchgoers, a t-shirt that said "free …
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Paris Hilton describes being abducted from her bed, forced snuggling, and patients drugged with 'booty juice' at the abusive residential treatment centers where she spent her teen years
In an essay published in The Times of London, the heiress said she thought she would be murdered or…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Disturbing photos show 'dangerous overcrowding' at migrant detention facilities in Texas
According to the report, senior facility managers raised "security concerns" for detainees and the …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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14,000 immigrant children spent Thanksgiving in US government detention shelters
Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody on June 12…
Alex Lockie
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Migrant children say they've been forcibly drugged, handcuffed, and abused in US government detention
Government contractors, including Texas' Shiloh Treatment Center and Virginia's Shenandoah Valley J…
Tara Francis Chan
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'Under the Bridge' explained: The real Rebecca Godfrey didn't actually hunt for Reena Virk's killers
Riley Keough plays real-life "Under the Bridge" writer Rebecca Godfrey, who helps the police find R…
Eammon Jacobs
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Clarence Thomas raised him 'as a son.' Now he's facing 25-plus years on weapons and drug charges.
Years ago, Thomas took in a 6-year-old relative who reminded him of himself. His sister's grandson,…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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A 12-year-old boy drove a stolen forklift and led police on a low-speed chase around the suburbs for an hour
Police said they found the boy driving the forklift on Saturday evening and pursued "at speeds of 1…