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This youth detention center superintendent illegally locks kids alone in cells–

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No one has forced him to stop. By Paige Pfleger, WPLN/Nashville Public Radio 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. With a glint in

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