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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.
A city law sought to prevent low-cost housing from turning into hotels, but some landlords rented to tourists anyway. That didn’t stop them from receiving city funds for a new temporary shelter program.
In a state that jailed more than 800 people in need of psychiatric care in a single year, an effort to improve jail conditions fell short.
The Maine Monitor and ProPublica found that the state health department rarely imposed sanctions in response to hundreds of regulatory violations by residential care facilities.
Ex-mayor’s sons faced few consequences despite history of similar allegations.