A 15-year-old Michigan teenager was jailed for months for not finishing her online homework. She was on probation and doing her homework was a probation requirement.

Aside from highlighting the cruel basic attitude of the US criminal justice system, which also shows in other ways, the case has another aspect the article does not mention. The class probably required her to use nonfree software, perhaps Zoom, or from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, or Apple. Refusing to run it was the right thing for her to do, just as it is the right thing for everyone to do.