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Middle Tennessee State University dropped Rutherford County Juvenile Judge Donna Scott Davenport as an adjunct professor following media reports last week of her involvement of the jailing of four Black
Rutherford County Juvenile Judge Donna Scott Davenport has been scrutinized for implementing a detention policy that imprisoned kids that a federal judge deemed unconstitutional
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.