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(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

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.

A bill that would have provided regular, independent inspections at juvenile detention centers is sent to 'summer study."

Significant campaign contributions threaten a bill to stop solitary confinement in juvenile detention centers according to state senator.

Disability Rights Tennessee has filed a federal lawsuit seeking records from three Middle Tennessee youth detention centers