Author: Taylor Pendergrass
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Continue juvenile justice reform despite COVID crime bump | OPINION
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Taylor Pendergrass A 13-year-old child lashes out against another student, triggered by lingering and untreated trauma. The police are summoned. Cold, heavy metal handcuffs are squeezed tight around impossibly tiny wrists. The child is separated from her family. She is whisked away to a detention cell. The empty cell has a plastic stool bolted to…


