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Following reporting from WPLN and ProPublica, the state lawmakers said there is a “culture of lawlessness” inside Knoxville’s Richard L. Bean Center and called for an audit throughout the system.
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.
Nicola Twilley on the artist Adam Cvijanovic’s murals of American wars at the Department of Defense’s Finance and Accounting Service.
The center has four mother goats, and three of them had twins this month. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 11:06 PM EDT April 28, 2021 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — New goats are wandering the Knox County Juvenile Detention Center — so many that some of the people there might think they're seeing double. Officials said that the center has four mother goats and that three of them gave birth to twins this year. One of them also had triplets, filling the center with many new four-legged friends, and even more bleating. "If we can help one kid, then I think we've done somethin...