The judge who jailed Black children for a crime that doesn't exist (Good read) - Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services

What happened on that Friday and in the days after, when police rounded up even more kids, would expose an ugly and unsettling culture in Rutherford County, one spanning decades. In the wake of these mass arrests, lawyers would see inside a secretive legal system that’s supposed to protect kids, but in this county did the opposite. Officials flouted the law by wrongfully arresting and jailing children.

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