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It had been a month since she had last seen her, when a judge found the girl had violated probation and sent her to the facility during the pandemic.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe girl, Grace, hadn\u2019t broken the law again. The 15-year-old wasn\u2019t in trouble for fighting with her mother or stealing, the issues that had gotten her placed on probation in the first place.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EShe was incarcerated in May for violating her probation by not completing her online coursework when her school in Beverly Hills switched to remote learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGrace\u0027s incarceration is yet another example of racial bias in the criminal legal system, particularly the\u00a0systems of probation and parole, according to Allison Frankel,\u00a0Aryeh Neier Fellow in the US Program at Human Rights Watch.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003EProbation is viewed as a gift, but its reality is harsh + punitive. Case in point: A teenager is incarcerated during a pandemic because she didn\u0027t do her homework. Like her, many detained for probation violations are Black and have disabilities \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/QNs1z5mL0l\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/t.co\/QNs1z5mL0l\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u2014 Allie Frankel (@abfrankel) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/abfrankel\/status\/1283078853074747392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EJuly 14, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGrace\u0027s detention also illustrates the glaring ways in which\u00a0Black\u00a0girls are disproportionately harmed by the school-to-prison pipeline, a trend in which harsh school discipline policies help push children into the criminal legal system, says Dreisen Heath, advocacy officer in the US Program at Human Rights Watch.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003ESchool-to-prison pipeline operating at its finest at the cost of black lives. The criminalization of black girls esp. is out of control \u2014 black girls are suspended from school at 6x rate of white girls \u0026amp; make up 1\/3 of female arrests on school campuses. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/TtwJYLGQzT\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/t.co\/TtwJYLGQzT\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u2014 Dreisen Heath (@dreisenheath) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/dreisenheath\/status\/1283034611006701568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EJuly 14, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProPublica reports that Grace\u0027s mother is devastated by the forced separation from her daughter, who has been detained for over a month.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECharisse counts each day they\u2019re apart, and that was day No. 33. Another month has since passed, and there could still be months to go before they are at home together again.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDriving home, Charisse had to pull over soon after she turned onto the road leading away from the complex. She sat in a parking lot, sobbing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt just doesn\u2019t make any sense,\u201d she said. She shook her head as tears dampened the disposable blue face mask pulled down to her chin.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEvery day I go to bed thinking, and wake up thinking, \u2018How is this a better situation for her?\u2019\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/a-teenager-didnt-do-her-online-schoolwork-so-a-judge-sent-her-to-juvenile-detention\u0022\u003ERead the full story in ProPublica \u0026gt; \u0026gt; \u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]