KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center is “not safe, nor is it secure,” according to Brian Bivens, the center’s former interim director.

At the end of May, Jacobs announced that Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin had said reports filed against Bean accused him of firing two employees who had sounded the alarm at the state level over the center’s operation. Bean later resigned his position, prompting the county to begin transitioning the center’s operation to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.

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Part of that takeover plan was appointing Bivens, who previously served as the head of the county’s jail, as interim juvenile detention center director. He quit the job in early

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