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Critics blast newly proposed rules designed to ban solitary confinement in juvenile detention centers. They say the rules were written with the help of juvenile detention operators.
Lawmakers want DCS to update its policy on seclusion to conform with a law passed last year after reports solitary confinement is continuing inside juvenile facilities.
The use of bounties among youths is one of many disturbing allegations in the report on conditions at Wilder Youth Development Center in Tennessee.
The Department of Children's Services is breaking state and federal law and wasting taxpayer dollars with "abusive" practices at west Tennessee juvenile detention facility.
The joint document describes Wilder as “a powder keg of pent up frustrations and hopelessness.”