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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 21, 2021

Eleven members of Congress sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland this week requesting the U.S. Justice Department open an investigation into the Rutherford County juvenile justice system, WPLN reports. The group took the action following allegations by WPLN News and ProPublica that the county has illegally arrested and detained children for years. The signers, all Democrats, included Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis, who is on the House Judiciary Committee and chairs the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Read the letter here.