Topline 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 a bombshell ProPublica investigation published Friday, as part of a system that sent kids as young as seven to jail. In Rutherford County, Tennessee, 48% of children whose cases were referred to juvenile court ended … [+] up jailed in 2014—a rate nearly 10 times higher than the state average. getty Key Facts According to ProPublica, Rutherford County, Tennessee, used what county officials called a “filter system” starting in 2008, which left it up t… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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