This Youth Detention Center Superintendent Illegally Locks #Kids Alone in Cells.

No One Has Forced Him to Stop.
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The Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center has been punishing kids with seclusion more than any other facility in #Tennessee.

And as the laws and rules on how to treat kids changed, the facility failed to keep up.

#CriminalJustice #Crime #Jail #Prisons #Police #KidsOfRutherfordCounty #News #Courts #Politics #Knoxville

https://www.propublica.org/article/knoxville-detention-center-illegally-locks-kids-alone-in-cells?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Secrecy Shields Powerful Adults in Our Juvenile Justice Systems. #Kids Showed Me What’s Really Happening.
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The three years I spent working on “The Kids of Rutherford County” #podcast taught me one thing: Tennessee’s punitive policies aren’t leaving #children in the legal system better off.

#Serial #KidsOfRutherfordCounty #Podcasts #CriminalJustice #Tennessee #Courts #Teens #CivilRights #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-kids-of-rutherford-county-reporters-essay?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post