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A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention.

By Jodi S. Cohen · ProPublica · July 2020
A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention.
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"A 15-year-old in Michigan was incarcerated during the coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not completing her schoolwork violated her probation. “It just doesn’t make any sense,” said the girl’s mother."

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