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After Discrimination Finding, Jury's Out On Memphis Juvenile Courts [NPR.org]

For people connected to the Memphis juvenile courts, April 2012 is unforgettable. That's when federal investigators determined that the Shelby County juvenile court system discriminated against African-American defendants.

The Justice Department said the system punished black children more harshly than whites. In the most incendiary finding, investigators said the court detained black children and sent them to be tried in the adult system twice as often as whites.

[For more of this story, written by Carrie Johnson, go toΒ http://www.npr.org/2014/08/06/338086226/after-discrimination-finding-jurys-out-on-memphis-juvenile-courts]

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