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Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 30, 2025

One day after Knox County Mayor Glen Jacobs called for "immediate state intervention" at the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center in Knoxville, Richard Bean has been forced out as superintendent. Knox News reports that he announced his retirement in a press release today, stating that his last day will be Aug. 1. Bean fired the center's sole registered nurse and an information technology specialist on May 28, but Jacobs and Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin cited "questionable circumstances" and demanded that the employees be reinstated. The nurse had been documenting errors and concerning incidents regarding patients before she was fired.