It has been a little more than a year since a criminal and civil case revealed a host of problems at the once-promising facility.

Knox County Criminal Court Judge Tim Irwin appointed a representative to the board who lacks detention center experience.

The news comes a year after county commissioners took over operations of the troubled facility and hired a former Department ...

I grew up in poverty, with a father in and out of prison, a mother addicted to heroin, and my cousins caught up in gangs.