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Did you know that Tennessee used to hold juveniles in solitary confinement even before they’d gone to trial? After we exposed this practice on the front page of The Tennessean, local lawmakers changed the rules.

And did you know that, co-published on the front page of the New York Times, clearly contributed to this change.

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