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Edward "EJ" LaGant­ta Photo: Kentucky Youth Advocates

EJ was in middle school when he entered Kentucky Juvenile Justice

BY: - February 14, 2023

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 […]