Maryland commits human rights violations against its children

In 2018, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released a scathing report against the United States’ treatment of children in the criminal justice system, concluding that “violations of children’s human rights on federal, state, and local levels” were rampant. Two years later, Human Rights for Kids (HRFK) released the first ever National State Ratings Report on Human Rights Protection for Children in the U.S. Justice System.