Safekeeping law: Tennessee can no longer house juveniles in adult prisons

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam gives his annual State of the State address to a joint convention of the Tennessee General Assembly, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam gives his annual State of the State address to a joint convention of the Tennessee General Assembly, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

Regenia Bowman never thought anything would happen when she talked about spending 189 days in solitary confinement.

Awaiting trial on an alleged probation violation in 2014, Bowman spent 23 hours a day in a cell. She lived in the same portion of a Tennessee prison that houses the state's lone female death row offender.

She was sent to the state prison because she had MRSA, a skin infection.

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