This Youth Detention Center Superintendent Illegally Locks Kids Alone in Cells. No One Has Forced Him to Stop.
This Youth Detention Center Superintendent Illegally Locks Kids Alone in Cells. No One Has Forced Him to Stop.
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.
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“What we do is treat everybody like they’re in here for murder,” he says. “You don’t have a problem if you do that.”
Most of the children in the Bean Center are not in for murder — in fact, most have only been charged with a crime, but are awaiting court dates.
So… that’s a civil rights violation on a massive scale.
47 1 ReplyThis old shithead watched Matilda and decided the titular character was the bad guy.
17 1 ReplyThis guy needs to be dragged out and fucking flogged. What cruel asshole. Makes me so fucking mad and he proud of it. And the state allows this.
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Someone should treat him like a murderer.
14 0 ReplyI knew it would be a shithole southern state without even having to read this article.
13 0 ReplyWhy is this guy still working at 83?
8 0 ReplyLoves his job
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Welcome to America
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