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# Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.
- URL: https://werd.io/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist/
- Published: 2021-10-08T22:17:58.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-08T22:17:58.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"They would eventually estimate that kids had been wrongly arrested 500 times. And that was just for kids arrested by the sheriff’s office. This estimate didn’t account for other law enforcement agencies in the county that followed Davenport’s “process.” As for how many times the juvenile detention center had improperly locked up kids through its “filter system,” the lawyers estimated that number at 1,500." A completely horrifying story that is entirely representative of America.

\[[Link](https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist)\]