A Knoxville youth group claims that they have not been allowed to volunteer in the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center ...

Richard L. Bean remained in his perch as the superintendent of the juvenile detention center that bears his name despite ...

Policymakers and criminal justice reform activists seek an audit and reevaluation of the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention ...

Adair Youth Development Center in Columbia has 30 days to correct the nearly two dozen problems found by state inspectors.

Gov. Bill Lee has promised state intervention at the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center after the latest round of issues at the Knox County facility.

Late last month, the director of the center came under fire for firing two employees in what some county leaders call retaliation.

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The Charleston County Sheriff's Office says it takes a village to help the teens at its Juvenile Detention Center. When it ...

Richard Bean, chief of Knox County's juvenile detention center, announced his resignation May 30 under pressure for how he ...

But they’ll be an entirely separate population from the prison, overseen by a different agency. The soon-to-open Harbor ...

Richard L. Bean reversed course on the firing under pressure from Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs and Juvenile Court Judge Tim ...

A Knoxville youth group claims that they have not been allowed to volunteer in the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center ...