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It's really very difficult not to blur the line between discipline and crime.

Civil rights leaders continued their call for a federal investigation of the North Charleston Police Department.

The line between school discipline and police arrest has broken down, and thousands of young people — many of them good kids who simply made a mistake — are ending up in jail, their futures tarnished.

Our Department of Juvenile Justice is in crisis. And there is an urgent need to take immediate action to ensure that the youth and staff in our juvenile facilities are safe.