A Michigan teenager has now been incarcerated for the grievous crimes of sleeping in during the pandemic and falling behind on schoolwork
A Michigan teenager on probation for stealing a classmate’s cellphone has now been incarcerated on suspicion of the grievous crimes of sleeping in during the pandemic and falling behind on schoolwork, a move that, should it set precedent for all children, would see nearly every teenager in America incarcerated by Thanksgiving.by ProPublica using only her middle name, Grace, was originally taken into custody for biting her mother’s finger in an argument.
Grace’s main crime, however, seems to be the fact that she is Black in a predominately white Michigan suburb. While Judge Mary Ellen Brennan sentenced her to probation for the first two offenses in May the judge incarcerated Grace after the child’s mother, in a moment of frustration, told a caseworker that she had gone back to sleep after a morning check-in rather than beginning her schoolwork.
And though Grace had been participating in therapy sessions and had stayed out of trouble until she was reported for the crime of being sleepy, Judge Brennan sent her to the Children’s Village juvenile detention center outside Detroit until her sentence is revisited in September. There, the child who overslept is shackled before virtual court hearings, meets less regularly with a therapist than she did while living with her mother, and has yet to meet with a teacher either in-person or online.
“My mom and I do get into a lot of arguments, but with each one I learn something and try to analyze why it happened,” she told the judge in the same hearing. “My mom and I are working each day to better ourselves and our relationship, and I think that the removal from my home would be an intrusion on our progress.”
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