After a joint Marshall Project and @Tennessean investigation into Tennesse's "safekeeping" law, Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a bill that installs new regulations on the 150-year-old law.
Read more here:https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/21/haslam-signs-safekeeping-bill-state-can-no-longer-house-teen-safekeepers-adult-prisons/566382002/ …
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Don't miss our original investigation into the century-old law that lets unequipped jails ship vulnerable people to solitary confinement in state prisons — even if they are mentally unstable or haven't committed a disciplinary infraction.https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/02/15/too-sick-for-jail-but-not-for-solitary?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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