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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 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 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…

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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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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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Virginia juvenile detention center new coronavirus hotspot

Experts say that prisons and jails can act as petri-dishes for the coronavirus. Social distancing …

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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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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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Steubenville, Ohio Teenage Rapist Released From Juvenile Detention

"Although everyone hopes convicted criminals are rehabilitated, it is disheartening that this convi…

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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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Teens Admit To Sexually Assaulting 15-Year-Old Who Killed Herself, Get Less Than 2 Months In Juvie

Juvenile justice expert Barry Krisberg told the Mercury News: "It's what I call justice by geograph…

Pamela Engel   


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Schools that suspend more students have more of them end up in jail

A paper finds that children that attend schools with higher rates of suspension are about 15% to 20…

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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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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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11-Year-Old Boy Sentenced For Plotting To Kill His 5th Grade Classmate

Fort Colville Elementary School staff seized a handgun, an ammunition clip and a knife from the 10-…

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Judge In 'Affluenza' Case Sentenced A Black Teen To 10 Years For Killing A Guy With A Single Punch

The boy could remain in the Texas Juvenile Justice Department - "which is basically prison for juve…

Christina Sterbenz   


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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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GUILTY: Verdict Handed Down In Steubenville High School Rape Case

Defendants Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville, Ohio, were charged with penetr…

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11-Year-Old Boy Arrested For Allegedly Bringing Gun, Knives, And 400 Rounds Of Ammunition To School

Frontier Middle School and a neighboring elementary school were put on lockdown for two hours while…

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11-Year-Old Boy Arrested For Allegedly Bringing Gun, Knives, And 400 Rounds Of Ammunition To School

Frontier Middle School and a neighboring elementary school were put on lockdown for two hours while…

Pamela Engel