2022-11-15 23:30
Indiana locks up more children and teens than New York and Illinois
When VirSarah Davis' 10-year-old son was released from detention, she thought it was the end of the ordeal for their family. But he was in and out of detention and commitment for almost a decade.Dylan Peers McCoy/WFYI VirSarah Davis' son was held in juvenile detention so many times the reasons blur together in her memory. He had an 'outburst' at school. He was caught with a gun. He fled house arrest.  But she knows one thing for certain: He was 10 years old the first time police took him from their home in South Bend to detention.

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