Children in Maryland are automatically charged as adults for any of 33 different charges. Per capita, only Alabama sends more of its kids into adult court based on the initial charge than we do. In Maryland, the overwhelming majority — more than 80 percent — of children automatically charged as adults are Black. Children in […]
Media Partner Archives:Baltimore Courtwatch
We started this project because the courtrooms that exist in the popular imagination, and the rights that people are told we have, do not in any meaningful way exist in real life. Bail review is one of the places this is most stark and, we hope, most jarring.