New Documents Prove Tennessee County Disproportionately Jails Black Children, and It's Getting Worse — ProPublica

Newly obtained reports show that Black children in Rutherford County are locked up more than twice as often as population size would suggest. And as the rest of the country has made progress on racial disparities, the county has gotten far worse.

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