By Robert Alan Glover RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN — Solitary confinement is not a card game. Just ask the family of a Murfreesboro teenager, who experienced solitary confinement and their attorneys, at the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee. The teens family brought a complaint against the Rutherford County Juvenile Detention Center in 2016, after their (then) 15-year-old son was placed in solitary confinement for five days with only a mattress and a toilet. The youth and the family’s, names cannot be used due to his age and the on-going litigation. Last month, Judge Donna Scott Davenport of the Rutherford County Juvenile Court, issued…
Author: Robert Alan Glover
By Robert Alan Glover MURFREESBORO, TN — Lindsay Frierson just spent an entire Saturday “going to the dogs, so to speak.” Frierson is media relations specialist for “PAWS (Pet Adoption Animal Welfare Services) in Rutherford County. On March 18th, Frierson and students from Central Magnet School hosted a Dog Whisperer Reading Program at the county Animal Shelter. “I do community involvement work with the public; promoting adoptions, and various events. We try to keep people coming through our doors,” Frierson said. According to Ms. Frierson, researchers from animal behavior studies recommended they should try some type of reading program but PAWS lacked the resources to help launch…
CHATTANOOGA TN — And six of them are dead. Three days before Thanks- giving and a month before Christmas, their families become mourners. Plans for funerals replaced the joys of Christmas shopping. This is the reality of the six young victims who lost their lives in the re- cent tragic school bus wreck in Chattanooga. The six victims were: Keonte Wilson, 8, (who died Thanksgiving Day) Zyaira Mateen, age 6, (Kindergarten); D’Myunn Brown, 6 (1st grade); Cor’Dayja Jones, 9; Zoie Nash, 9 and Zyanna Harris, 10 (all 4th Graders). Cor’Dayja was the niece of Chattanooga dramatist, activist (the Ed Johnson…