They knew what they were doing was wrong, they just did not care.
Rutherford County settled the class action, agreeing to pay up to $11 million…The county, as part of the settlement, “denies any wrongdoing in any of the lawsuits filed against it.”
The price of doing bidness. An bidness is what it’s all about:
But that doesn’t mean its jail is ramping down…The jail keeps adding staff…the county has “shifted gears.” Forced to stop jailing so many of its own children…its pitch to other places, to jail theirs…Thirty-nine counties now contract with Rutherford, according to a report published this year. So does the U.S. Marshals Service…
As always the medium of exchange has spoken, thereby allowing the intact male bovine excement to start traveling on foot.
It’s hard to capture just how racist America is and how violently racist white America is towards black people. It’s also deeply perplexing that a majority of white folks don’t even seem to realize it or will rationalize or gas light it away. The civil rights division of the DOJ needs to be doubled or tripled in size to go after unfathomable schemes like this and also racist murders like what happened Ahmaud Arbery. These situations are sadly commonplace in America and we haven’t done a good job in really going after it to wipe it out of our society. For example, why aren’t racists being rooted out of police forces? I could go on but this report was deeply disturbing but also not unfamiliar. Did I think while reading this that it was all surprising that something like this can happen in America? No. And that’s the sad part of it all. Systemic racism is really about racists administering systems and doing racist things with the power that they have. We just have a lot of racists in this country and our society coddles them.
I can’t find the right words to express the sick feelings I have after reading this. I’ve seen juvenile justice system from many sides – in my family of origin, with an almost constant stream of police coming after one or more of my three JD brothers, from the child welfare system, both as a kid, and as an adult, where I managed a large training budget for social workers in state child welfare systems. Even in the best of states, in both urban and rural areas, these systems are broken. Absolutely broken. I am shaking right now, I am so angry and feel so helpless. I have no hope for these kids and families, especially kids of color living in impoverished/underserved areas.
ETA: And my disgust for the people like Davenport is extreme. She is disgraceful beyond words. And she thinks she is completing a mission for god. How much trauma has she directly been responsible for – She needs a major intervention, and a truly painful one.
It’s not Deliverance County, is it, at least geographically. People like this just don’t think they’re doing anything wrong or that they shouldn’t be able to make money anyway they can.
My brother-in-law is an officer in a juvenile detention facility here in town. I’m having dinner with him and our family tonight. He’s a die-hard, ignorant, right-wing, religiously fascist Republican.
I don’t dare discuss this subject with him. We’ll be in public. I can’t risk the spectacle.
This thought actually makes me want to skip dinner, altogether.
I would skip the dinner or talk about whatever i wanted to talk about…‘evil happens when good men/women do nothing’…that is easy for me to say…i’m not in your shoes.
Thank you. I just had a flash fantasy of a cage fight between her and TFG in a ring of mud. A death match. Although I try not to, I do have murderous thoughts from time to time.
This reads a lot like that story more than a year ago. A thoroughly corrupt Pennsylvania state judge would imprison kids (with the help of a dirty prosecutor), sending the kids to a for-profit prison, which then paid off prosecutor and judge. If I recall, Mr. Judge was convicted and got over 25 yrs in the hoosegow. I’d bet he is really popular there. Could not have happened to a more deserving West end of an Eastbound Equine.
