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4 Dec 2010, 5:17 am
The title of this post is the headline to an Austin Statesman article published yesterday about a dispute over how much information Texas youth prisons must give school districts about paroled juveniles when they get back to the free world and go back to class:Spurred by threats of an Austin lawsuit, the Texas Youth Commission has asked the attorney general to determine how much information must be disclosed when paroled offenders arrive at a new… [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 7:44 am
" Now that same troubled institution has been tapped to supply new leadership to another prison system brought down by physical and sexual abuse of inmates, official cover-ups and mismanagement - the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
26 Apr 2007, 6:15 am
Looking around the Texas Youth Commission website I ran across this page with links to TYC students poetry and artwork. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 7:48 am
Even though a handful of those released committed serious offenses, juvenile-crime rates plummeted and the state overall became a safer place.Since Nate Blakeslee first broke the story that Texas Youth Commission staff were molesting youth back in 2007, Texas has tried everything to reduce sexual victimization rates at youth prisons except to follow expert advice to abandon large youth prisons altogether. [read post]
1 Aug 2010, 11:38 am
The number of juveniles sent to youth prisons from Texas' largest counties dramatically declined after 2007 - when the Legislature implemented reforms at the Texas Youth Commission in the wake of a sex abuse scandal - demonstrating the remarkable extent to which state and local decisionmaking drives incarceration policy as much or more than crime rates. [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 7:08 pm
The Texas Youth Commission has undergone sweeping reforms since allegations of abuse surfaced in 2007. [read post]
14 May 2014, 6:00 am
It also endorsed "a national goal of diverting more youth from large state facilities to local, non-institutional settings in the juvenile justice systems," a trend that Texas has led by reducing the number of inmates in state institutions by 80% since the 2007 Texas Youth Commission sex scandal. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 7:28 am
TYC independent ombudsman Will Harrell yesterday presented a copy of his office's recent report on education services (pdf) at the Youth Commission to an interim hearing of the Texas Senate Education Committtee. [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 10:00 am
Will the Youth Commission get permission to spend bond money on multiple small facilities, or only one big one? [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 1:50 am
Is juvenile crime declining in Texas despite a dramatic reduction in inmate population at the Youth Commission? [read post]
20 May 2007, 4:38 am
[JURIST] The Texas Youth Commission (TYC) [official website] will release 226 inmates from its juvenile prison system after an investigation revealed that their sentences were improperly extended. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 6:09 am
"The numbers are increasing, and the percentages are increasing," Townsend told members of the Texas House Corrections Committee, referring to the number of juvenile detainees who have mental health problems and their proportion of the state's total youth population at detention facilities.Not everybody, though, agreed that Texas youth prisons are morphing into insane asylums. [read post]
21 Apr 2007, 1:22 am
Two TYC-related updates:Reporter Nate Blakeslee, who first broke the story of the alleged sex scandal at the Texas Youth Commission in the Texas Observer, has a feature on the topic in the May issue of Texas Monthly titled "Sins of Commission" - a free media preview of the story is available here. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 10:36 pm
Lots of action today on the TYC front:Appropriations Hearing Reviews TYC SpendingThe House Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal Justice today at noon will hold a hearing to examine "implementation" of appropriations to the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
11 May 2007, 10:48 am
AP reports that he is moving to the troubled Texas Youth Commission to serve as Ombudsman. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 10:45 pm
My God, if it's not one thing it's another at the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 10:24 am
The Texas Youth Commission has temporarily canceled the bidding process for contracts to house 10-13 year old juvenile offenders, a Dallas news reporter confirmed via email.Grits had reported earlier this month here, here, and here that the Texas Youth Commission was far along in the process of analyzing bids from private contract facilities to house 10-13 year olds, who make up about 20% of TYC's inmate population. [read post]
1 Jan 2020, 9:12 am
Give it a read.More on victimization at Texas youth prisonsAfter Grits earlier reacted to a new federal report on sexual victimization in Texas youth prisons, other reporters are following up. [read post]
24 Mar 2008, 1:34 pm
The Texas Youth Commission reports a shocking 50 percent recidivism rate. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 11:51 am
Via a press release from youth advocacy groups, we learn which Texas Youth Commission facilities will be closed as part of the agency's consolidation with the Juvenile Probation Commission into the new Texas Juvenile Justice Department later this year:AUSTIN – Today, the board of the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) announced closure of three juvenile correctional facilities: Al Price State Juvenile Correctional… [read post]
