The superintendent of a youth detention center in #Knoxville, #Tennessee illegally puts kids in solitary confinement for laughing during meals, talking during class or getting lice. He leaves them for hours, days, sometimes even over a week.
The Department of Child Services has known about this, and continues to re-license the facility.
Astonishingly, the superintendent gave a WPLN & ProPublica reporter a tour of the facility. And reminisced to her about beating kids.
https://www.propublica.org/article/knoxville-detention-center-illegally-locks-kids-alone-in-cells