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They use a filter system to give jailers discretion for jailers arrested sent to the juvenile defense center. 11 black children were arrested for witnessing, not participating but witnessing a fight between other children. just seeing it happen. which by the way, is not a crime. at least six of the kids were handcuffed, four of them at their elementary school. one girl fell to her knees as she was arrested. another threw up. police handcuffed the youngest, an 8-year-old with pigtails. four of the 11 kids spent time in jail. overseeing this was the county's only juvenile court judge who describ...

Inadequate and didn't happen, but these cluster of lawsuits allowed us to look into this world that is usually shut off from the public. in order to protect children. >> and this was a money making scheme in this county, my understanding. is they made quite a bit of money doing it and this judge, how in the world is she still seated and what is becoming of her? >> yeah, the money aspect is interesting. it is a little decoupled from the children at the top of the story. the fact of the matter is that they get 17 -- $175 a day for every child they detain. one of the positive things about the law...

In other words, the head jailer, she reports every month to the county commissioners who didn't ask questions about policy. they often likened the jail to a business, sometimes joking that it was like a hotel. the tennessee department of children services licenses juvenile jails and it inspected the jail every year and not once did it flag this illegal filter system. they really just remarked on the cleanliness of the facility or if it had graffiti or not. there were multiple layers from county and state that were ineffective at catching this illegal system. >> my head is exploding. my head ex...

On her process for arresting children, basically arrest children, transport them to the detention center for screening, then file charging papers. in other words, every child arrested, even for minor things like truancy, were being taken to the juvenile detention center, the judge told law enforcement. the other part of this is davenport also footnoted county's head jailer who has been in power almost as long as the judge davenport since 2000, and she had her own screening process for children called the filter system that was pulling in really large numbers of children into the detention cent...

Exist in tennessee law. all 11 of the kids arrested for being jailed under a filter system. how does something like this happen in the first place? talk to me about that charge and sort of as you described the system and the various failings of the system, where, then, the oversight should've been. >> yeah. so the charge of criminal responsibility is not an actual charge. it's a prosecutorial theory. in essence, someone can be charged with assault who is present during an assault, but they can't be charged with criminal responsibility. it's just not an actual charge. so that's kind of the firs...