TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 22, 2015

University of Tennessee law professor Dean Rivkin told a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday about an investigation into children who were shackled and jailed in Knox County after being summoned to court for truancy. His testimony came during a hearing on whether states have been allowed to take federal juvenile justice grant money while violating laws against jailing juveniles for minor infractions. Read more from Public Integrity.org.