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Despite outcry at juvenile detention centers, Tennessee lawmakers fail to pass oversight bill

(This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with WPLN/Nashville Public Radio. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.) A bill that would strengthen oversight of Tennessee’s juvenile detention centers has failed, despite a concerted push for reform after multiple county-run facilities were found to […] The post Despite outcry at juvenile detention centers, Tennessee lawmakers fail to pass oversight bill appeared fir ....

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Tennessee Juvenile Detention Oversight Bill Fails Despite Outcry Over Treatment of Children — ProPublica

The legislation, sponsored by two prominent Republicans, had backing from the Department of Children’s Services and would have cost the state nothing. Child welfare advocates are baffled as to why it failed. ....

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A Tennessee Youth Detention Center Has Been Illegally Throwing Kids in Solitary Confinement

An investigation from ProPublica shows that one Knoxville-area facility is putting kids in solitary but skirting scrutiny by classifying the seclusion as "voluntary." ....

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A Tennessee Detention Center Has Been Illegally Putting Kids in Solitary Confinement

An investigation from ProPublica shows that one Knoxville-area facility is putting kids in solitary but skirting scrutiny by classifying the seclusion as "voluntary." ....

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Knoxville's Youth Detention Center Locked Up Kids Alone 1,000 Times in Three Months — ProPublica

Though Tennessee says the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center is improving, new reporting suggests that though the facility claims its use of seclusion is voluntary, the kids don’t see it that way. ....

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