Outrage Grows Over Jailing Of Children As Tennessee University Cuts Ties With Judge Involved | Talking Points Memo

[bdtex]

@mondfledermaus

Not that I disagree, but it should be noted that it is a Church with a black congregation. I am waiting to hear the condemnations from a Pastor with a white flock…not that I am holding my breath, that would be bad for the collections plate.

The story also does not say whether any of the state elected officials who have condemned her actions are Republicans.

[thunderclapnewman]

They’re not Republicans.

[bdtex]

@thunderclapnewman

They’re not Republicans.

I suspected that.

[lizzymom]

@sharong

I’m so disgusted and sickened by how much trauma this woman inflicted on hundreds of children…

It made me nauseous to read about it. Takes my breath away that this stuff goes on…and above all, evades detection for so long, because of collusion of other vile bigots.

I hope she not only gets the book thrown at her, that she is disbarred and then stuck behind bars. With a healthy fine too.

[Fire_Joni_Ernst]

I also wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for pastors of white congregations to condemn. Tennessee pastors must believe in a separate but equal Jim Crow Jesus for black children. OK, not so equal, but the little girls brought it on themselves by being black. @mondfledermaus /s

There are clears signs that sadism is the driving force of the Republican Party

[castor_troy]

Should put her ass on the inside for a few years so she can enjoy what she’s enabled others to enjoy.

[melopsittacus]

Agreed. This is why we need and should value a free press.

[rogerhead]

Looks like a “Karen” on steroids.

[mondfledermaus]

@bdtex

The story also does not say whether any of the state elected officials who have condemned her actions are Republicans.

No Republican will condemn her, that would be the most un-Christian thing to do. You know forgiveness, throwing the first stone, and shit.

[josephebacon]

Davenport was merely following in the tradition of these two crooked Pennsylvania judges who got bribes from private prison companies for each kid they sent to corporate controlled detention centers!

Kids for cash scandal

[dryheat]

Apparently the county has settled a civil suit. Does anyone know what sort of legal repercussions might still be available that would directly impact “Judge” Davenport?

Jail time would be great, but anything would be better than having the county just pay her bill and tell her to keep at it.

[bdtex]

I am wondering whether suspension of her law license or disbarment are options.

[thunderclapnewman]

Both are options, but neither is likely.

[kidzmom1]

I’m glad so many are horrified and will do what they can to end this practice and make sure it doesn’t happen again, but where the hell was the oversight WHILE it was HAPPENING?

I’m grateful the university cut ties, but did they NOT know what she was teaching? Did no one receive any complaints? Or were they just lodged by black parents and therefore not “serious enough” to warrant careful consideration?

God damn it.

[sysprog]

Thanks to ProPublica…why did it take so long to ‘out’ this secretary/Judge and what she was doing?

[Musgrove_20]

I mean… they had stats that showed how this one county was a huge outliner for jailing kids and yet no one did anything about it.

[tacoma]

@ronbyers

These outraged people didn’t say a word until the press got hold of the story. They liked the money Davenport’s system was generating. They didn’t really want to look too closely at how she was generating it.

that is the essence of what she was doing and how/why it was allowed to continue for so long. i think the ‘jailors’ get x amount of money for every child they held in capitivity…its all about the money…it reminds me of FLORIDA and its ‘reform’ schools…kids died and were buried on the schools grounds.

[dryheat]

@thunderclapnewman

Both [suspension and disbarment] are options, but neither is likely.

Politically, you may be right. I don’t know the folks who make these decisions in Tennessee.

As a legal matter, though, suspension should be an easy lift. If she has been jailing children for crimes that don’t exist (among other things), a suspension with a requirement that she take X number of relevant hours of continuing legal education would be appropriate and ostensibly non-political.

(I see suspensions formulated like that – time plus education – fairly frequently from the Bar here in Arizona.)

[tacoma]

@Musgrove_20

mean… they had stats that showed how this one county was a huge outliner for jailing kids and yet no one did anything about it.

no-one even asked…

[lastroth]

I’ve been thinking about this since it was firsts published. How could others in policing, in the court system, or even in local gov’t miss out on what was happening.
Where is the money come from to build the Juvenile Justice Center that was over built, and thus used as money maker for other counties to send their juveniles to be detained.
Then there’s the election part of her judgeship, I believe her terms in officer were in 6 year increments. Did anyone run against her? Where were the lawyers? Who was supervising her running of the system?
I hate to say it but she set up a system that is right out Jim Crow.