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Investigators with the state's watchdog agency conducted interviews at the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center on April ...
Policymakers and criminal justice reform activists seek an audit and reevaluation of the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center.
Richard Bean, chief of Knox County's juvenile detention center, announced his resignation May 30 under pressure for how he ...
How whistleblowers initiated changes that a damning 2003 report did not. It ended in Richard Bean's retirement.
Richard Bean, superintendent of Knox County's juvenile detention center, announced May 30 his retirement. Bean said his decision was accelerated by the lack of confidence expressed in his ...
Last week, a whistleblower upended half a century of leadership at the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center. The juvenile detention center was built in 1930 and is guided by an independent ...
Bean said he was "dismayed and disappointed by the rush to judgment" by county leaders as a result of a "personnel decision" ...
The superintendent of Knox County’s juvenile detention center has announced he will be retiring this summer after Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs called him out for firing two employees in ...
Investigators with the state's watchdog agency conducted interviews at the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center on April 7, Knox News has learned. Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury ...
We are learning more about the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center in Knox County. It has been almost one week since Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs made a public statement regarding the ...