Murfreesboro child arrests part of a growing national concern

Shock reverberated through Middle Tennessee in April when Murfreesboro police arrested 10 elementary-age students for not stopping a fight that occurred off campus days earlier.

Lawmakers, church leaders and social justice experts across the country questioned the rationale behind handcuffing and booking children that young. They pointed to the scarring effects on the student and their peers, as well as the societal pattern of pushing kids, especially the most at-risk, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/05/03/murfreesboro-child-arrests-part-growing-national-concern/83883454/