A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention.
Posted on AllSides July 14th, 2020
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PONTIAC, Mich. — One afternoon in mid-June, Charisse* drove up to the checkpoint at the Children’s Village juvenile detention center in suburban Detroit, desperate to be near her daughter. It had been a month since she had last seen her, when a judge found the girl had violated probation and sent her to the facility during the pandemic.