32 teens escape Tennessee detention center
theGRIO REPORT - Thirty-two teenagers escaped Monday night from a Nashville detention center...
Thirty-two teenagers escaped Monday night from a Nashville detention center.
The group escaped from Woodland Hills Youth Development Center around 11 p.m., following a guard shift change.
Authorities told The Tennessean that the teens were able to enter the yard and escape through a weak spot in the fence.
The boys who escaped were between the ages of 14 and 18.
“Staffing is lighter during the overnight hours, and so, presumably, they planned for that, but we don’t know quite yet,” Rob Johnson, spokesman for the Department of Children’s Services, told WSMV. Johnson also said that most of the young men have at least three felonies.
Johnson said that, as of Tuesday morning, 10 of the boys were still at large.
It is unknown whether this was a planned escape.
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