So, it's easy to get on board with Shelby County commissioners who want to build a $54 million juvenile detention and assessment center to replace the facility on Adams Street — an idea that ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The juvenile detention center for Shelby County Juvenile Court runs drills twice a month to protect against problems that have plagued a Nashville detention center this week.

Now, parents are telling us the situation is not much better at the lock-up that holds juvenile offenders. The detention center off Old Getwell Road in South Memphis is where young people under 18 ...

On Friday, Juvenile Courts leadership said they ... the transportation for kids going from the Youth Detention Center to Downtown Memphis, where the main Juvenile Courts building is located.

MEMPHIS, Tenn ... facility does not meet the demand for juvenile detention and rehabilitation services. RELATED: Fayette County youth development center with frequent escapes getting new ...

Investigators with the state's watchdog agency conducted interviews at the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center on April ...

Bean Juvenile Service Center in Knoxville ... (READ MORE: Too many Memphis students in juvenile detention aren't attending school, advocates warn) State Sen. Kerry Roberts, a Republican from ...

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