racial disparities
EJ was in middle school when he entered Kentucky Juvenile Justice
When Edward “EJ” LaGantta was arrested for the first time, he was in middle school. Not yet a teenager, he was arrested after being in a fight with a white boy. Louisville’s LaGantta, who is Black, went into juvenile detention for the first of five times, including for truancy. The white boy, LaGantta heard, went […]