Judge To Hear Motion For Panties

MAY 16--A Tennessee youth detention facility that provides female inmates with previously worn--and allegedly stained--underwear has triggered legal complaints by a pair of teenagers who have spent time in the Knoxville lockup. In the below "motion for panties," which was filed this month in Knox County Juvenile Court, one of the girls contends that the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center's "used-panty policy is nasty, debasing, and humiliating." A second, similar complaint was filed Friday by another girl who has spent pre-trial detention time at the Bean center (Assistant Public Defender James Owen, who filed the community underwear complaints on behalf of both teens, provided TSG with the panty motion after redacting the minor's name). Detention center administrators contend that the prison undergarments are clean and that Owen's legal briefs are frivolous. (2 pages)