ProPublicaNov 16, 2023

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

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This Youth Detention Center Superintendent Illegally Locks Kids Alone in Cells. No One Has Forced Him to Stop.

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.

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Read all of our coverage, with Nashville Public Radio, of juvenile detention in Tennessee here:

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Juvenile Injustice, Tennessee

Children in Rutherford County have been arrested and jailed at rates unparalleled in the state. We’re investigating how that happened — and other ways the justice system there singles out children.

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