Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs is following through on his plan to turn over control of a troubled juvenile detention center to the sheriff’s office after revelations of medical malfeasance upended the center’s longtime leadership.
On May 29, Jacobs called for the Knox County Commission to wrest control of the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center from its board of trustees and shift operations to the sheriff’s office amid scrutiny of how the facility is run.
The center’s problems grew out of its leadership under Richard Bean, its longtime superintendent. Bean was forced out of his role after firing a whistleblower who had sounded alarms about medical malfeasance and his “archaic” methods of running the place…