Research shows it’s best practice to house foster kids with families, but a bill would allow foster kids to be placed in the most secure juvenile facilities.
As Nashville thaws, fears over immigration enforcement remain
As a historic winter storm devastated Tennessee, the fight over immigration continued to play out at the statehouse and in Nashville’s streets.
Tennessee moms fight for policy changes after their sons were illegally isolated in juvenile detention
The mothers say their sons were locked in solitary confinement, sometimes for weeks at a time when they were inside a juvenile detention center.
How Tennessee’s juvenile justice laws impacted kids in 2024
This year started off with a battle in the state legislature. And kids caught up in the justice system are the ones who have dealt with the consequences.
NashVillager Podcast: Protecting Tennessee’s kids
Why are more kids in Tennessee dying of suspected abuse and neglect? Plus the local news for July 3, 2024.
Pepper spray, beatings and neglect: DCS sued over treatment of kids in Tennessee’s juvenile justice facilities
A class action lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services failed to protect children in the juvenile justice system.
Tennessee lawmakers want more oversight of juvenile detention. The Department of Children’s Services is pushing back.
New legislation would shift enforcement power to an independent agency after a WPLN and ProPublica investigation found that a Knoxville detention center was illegally locking kids alone in cells.
Tennessee lawmakers demand an audit of juvenile detention facilities, citing ‘culture of lawlessness’ at the Richard L Bean Center
A group of Tennessee lawmakers is calling for an audit of the use of seclusion inside juvenile detention facilities, and the removal of a Knox County superintendent.
A Black family from Georgia is still not reunited with their five kids who were taken into DCS custody in Tennessee
It’s been about a month since Bianca Clayborne and Deonte Williams were separated from their five children following a traffic stop in rural Tennessee.
Tennessee Democrats demand DCS release children taken from Black family after a traffic stop
Tennessee Democrats are demanding the state’s Department of Children’s Services return five Black children taken from their parents following a traffic stop in Coffee County last month, the details of which quickly went viral after the Tennessee Lookout first reported the story on Thursday.
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