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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 6, 2019

Four teenagers escaped from Nashville’s juvenile detention center last week because employees broke “multiple rules in quick succession,” the Tennessean reports. Youth Opportunities, the company that manages the facility has acknowledged the failures and has fired three employees and put a fourth on suspension. On the night of the event, employees let youths out of their cells after bedtime; left them alone and unsupervised; left an elevator open and ignored security camera footage from within the elevator; and failed to call 911 immediately after realizing the teens were missing. Two of the teens have been apprehended, while two remain at large. The company has announced a $5,000 reward for tips leading to their arrest. Metro Nashville Police also announced this week it will undertake an investigation of the incident.