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29 Jan 2015, 6:01 am
A brief note from AP previewed a report on the Texas juvenile justice system coming out today:A new study concludes that the Texas juvenile justice system's shift away from housing youths in state-run detention facilities has coincided with a sharp drop in crime committed by young people.The report commissioned by Texas and compiled by the Justice Center at the nonpartisan Council of State Governments is being unveiled Thursday in Austin. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 9:42 am
Texas Youth Commission Executive Commissioner Cherie Townsend sent out this email today to TYC employees announcing significant layoffs: I am certain most of you are aware that the Sunset Advisory Commission met yesterday and voted 6-5 to abolish the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and to establish the Texas Juvenile Justice Department by September 1, 2010. [read post]
12 Apr 2008, 1:01 am
Here are a few newsclips regarding the Texas Youth Commission that cropped up this week while I was paying more attention to the Eldorado fiasco:McAllen Monitor: New settlment tackles reforms for Evins youth detention centerAmarillo Globe News: State Sen. [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 12:16 am
Here are several items from the mainstream media about the Texas Youth Commission that will interest many readers:Youth Commission still not seeing error of its ways, Austin Statesman editorial board.Politics, privacy law, and publicity combine to delay Youth Commission releases, Austin Statesman, Mike WardFollow the Roadmap to Reform, Austin Statesman, David Springer (Blue Ribbon Panel member)And if you didn't read these stories about TYC… [read post]
30 Apr 2007, 4:47 am
2 May 2007, 1:57 am
The Texas Youth Commission has very little oversight over youth medical care, a consultant told a legislative committee this morning, and misdiagnoses by undertrained staff have led to poor care for students in TYC youth lockups.The Joint Legislative Committee on Operations at the Texas Youth Commission heard testimony this morning from Michelle Staples Horn, a pediatrician working with the American Corrections Association who… [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 8:01 pm
Reports the Statesman's Mike Ward:A House bill filed this afternoon would abolish the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and create a new agency to oversee most of the state’s youth corrections programs.House Bill 1915 is the first merger bill filed this legislative session after such a move was recommended earlier by the Sunset Advisory Commission, as a way to streamline and improve… [read post]
15 May 2007, 12:16 pm
Just a few quick links to some recent MSM coverage of the Texas Youth Commission:For those interested, my former boss from ACLU of Texas, Will Harrell, gave a brief interview this weekend published in the San Antonio Express News ("TYC ombudsman says his appointment sends strong message," 5-13) regarding his new job as ombudsman at the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 3:42 pm
Two otherwise unrelated stories about the Texas Youth Commission show how interconnected the agency and its facilities are at a fundamental level both with other social service agencies and the communities they serve.First, the Texas Observer blog wonders if the Texas Youth Commission can ever be fixed as long as it remains a dumping ground for the failures of schools and the indigent mental health system.Perhaps the agency has been so… [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 8:31 am
Texas Monthly named Youth Commission Ombudsman Will Harrell one of its 35 People Who Will Shape Our Future. [read post]
23 Oct 2010, 6:34 am
The story opens:Anti-psychotic drugs meant to treat mental illness were being used instead as chemical restraints on youths incarcerated in Texas Youth Commission facilities, Commissioner Scott Fisher said.The medications, which have a sedating effect, are intended to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder but were used on youths who did not have those diagnoses.Fisher, a Bedford pastor, said the commission has worked over the past year… [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 10:46 am
Marc Levin and Vikrant Reddy from the Texas Public Policy Foundation have an op ed out today encouraging combination of the Texas Youth Commission and Juvenile Probation Commission, with the caveat that part of the savings should be reallocated to community-based diversion programs. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 1:42 pm
Citing this article in the Waco Tribune Herald, Grits for Breakfast brings the promising news that the Texas Youth Commission will no longer house violent youth in solitary confinement for extended periods of time, a punitive practice more appropriate for adult prisons than for juvenile offenders, who are ostensibly supposed to receive treatment in the [...] [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 4:10 am
What's the deal with all the secret decisions trickling out of the Texas Youth Commission? [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 7:08 pm
"The Texas Youth Commission is continuing a pattern of, what appears to us, a willful disregard for the spending parameters set by the Legislature," Sen. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 1:47 am
The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition's Juvenile Justice Initiative has released a detailed public policy report entitled, "Pepper Spray in the Texas Youth Commission: Research Review and Recommendations" (pdf). [read post]
1 Oct 2008, 8:52 am
With the joint Texas House-Senate committee on oversight for the Texas Youth Commission meeting this morning at 10 a.m., it was timely for Texas A&M San Antonio Prof. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 11:46 pm
But at the Texas Youth Commission, the new 300 hour training regimen includes just 150 hours of classroom time and 150 hours of on the job training, or OJT. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 1:41 am
As a couple of folks mentioned in the comments, Texas legislators on a joint oversight committee will return to Austin next Wednesday to hear testimony about reforms at the Texas Youth Commission, reports the Austin Statesman:Amid growing controversy over the proposed release on parole of more than 150 youth offenders, a majority of them serving time for violent crimes, a special legislative committee on Tuesday scheduled a public hearing to review… [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 10:40 pm
Last night around 10:30, the Sunset Advisory Commission voted 6-5 in favor of merging the Texas Youth Commission and the Juvenile Probation Commission. [read post]
