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31 Oct 2007, 11:44 pm
The Texas Youth Commission continues to make mainstream media headlines:National Public Radio: Crisis-Prone Texas Juvenile Prisons Look to ReformHouston Chronicle: TYC's youngest offenders serve more time than older felonsDallas News: Editorial from parent of youth allegedly abused at Victory FieldSee also NPR's related piece on reforms at Missouri's youth prison system.Meanwhile, from the blogs, Vince Leibowitz lets us know that… [read post]
6 May 2008, 11:12 pm
AP reported that:More than 70 inmates at a Texas juvenile prison ran from their dorms and climbed into trees or on top of buildings before staff got them all back inside, Texas Youth Commission staff said Tuesday. [read post]
22 Nov 2007, 1:10 am
With Kathy out of town, I'm leaving in just a bit with my former ACLUTX boss and current Texas Youth Commission Ombudsman to spend Thanksgiving with the kids and staff at the TYC unit in Giddings. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 6:31 pm
The commission heard from several Texas experts. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 4:38 pm
A couple of readers emailed from across the pond to say things appear to be blowing up yet again at the Texas Youth Commission (I can't leave you people alone for a minute!) [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 8:43 am
Today's Houston Chronicle carries the editorial, "Texas Youth Commission made a bad hire. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 4:55 am
The Dallas News on Sunday called for "A Fix Closer to Home" for the Texas Youth Commission, arguing that the state gains no measurable public safety benefit from sending most youth to TYC: As the governor's Blue Ribbon Task Force Report notes, Texas, unlike demographically similar California, chooses to incarcerate more younger offenders for less serious crimes but achieves no better youth crime rates. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 6:07 am
The Texas Youth Commission this spring announced plans to reduce its youth inmate population, but decisions about who goes to TYC are made locally, and recently the number of youth committed to TYC has grown annually.From data on the TYC website I compiled this spreadsheet listing the ten largest contributing counties to TYC:As one might expect, Houston and Dallas led TYC's growth over the last five years, with the number of commitments from Harris… [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 5:25 am
Yesterday's briefing on the proposed merger of the Texas Youth Commission and the Juvenile Probation Commission was adequately covered by the MSM, so I'll let others do the heavy lifting:Texas TribuneDallas Morning NewsAustin StatesmanLone Star ReportToday's House Corrections Committee hearing, which will be streamed online here starting at 2 pm, will undoubtedly flesh all this out more detail when they hear Chairman Madden's HB 1915. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 10:00 pm
As if corruption in the Texas Youth Commission, the bursting state prison system, reform of the judicial selection system, or reorganization of TSU isn't enough to keep Texas legislators occupied. [read post]
16 May 2011, 12:55 pm
LINK TO REPORT Advocates and policy specialists from Disability Rights Texas, the National Center for Youth Law and Texas Appleseed examined the experiences of youth with mental illness committed to the Texas Youth Commission (TYC). [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 1:11 pm
I noticed a few stories related to juvenile justice and the Texas Youth Commission that may interest Grits readers: From the Beaumont Enterprise:What does it take to reform a reformatory? [read post]
27 Mar 2009, 4:47 am
Anyone with a stake in reforms at TYC and TJPC should definitely read this document, which I'm told is indicative of the general direction legislators would like to go, though not a written-in-stone blueprint.RELATED: Looks like the TYC/TJPC Sunset bill is up next week in House Corrections; it's HB 3689 "Relating to abolishing the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and transferring the powers and duties of… [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 11:58 am
Rick Perry has named Will Harrell of Austin the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) Independent Ombudsman for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2011. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 1:46 pm
Occasional Grits commenter and UT-San Antonio historian Bill Bush had a column in the Austin Statesman over the weekend warning that officials charged with merging the Texas Youth Commission and Juvenile Probation Commission should avoid mistakes of the past. [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 5:51 am
The Juvenile Probation Commission has posted on its website this summary (pdf) of how Texas' largest counties spent grants given to their juvenile probation departments to divert chronic, serious offenders away from youth prisons as part of the 2007 SB 103 reforms. [read post]
25 Aug 2007, 1:25 am
Problems at the Texas Youth Commission, without question, have plummeted to depths beyond my own ability to adequately analyze many important details, so I've asked some folks to guest blog on Grits periodically over the next few weeks to gain additional perspective on this troubled agency and efforts to reform it.To kick off this series, former Texas Youth Commission contracts attorney Howard Hickman, who left the agency this summer,… [read post]
14 Apr 2009, 11:40 pm
Long-time readers will remember that, two years ago, dozens of Texas Youth Commission employees were fired when the state switched them all to at will employment in the much ballyhood SB 103. [read post]
11 Apr 2007, 9:18 pm
From NPR.com: A grand jury indicts two former employees of the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 12:05 am
A couple of recent Texas Youth Commission stories deserve Grits readers attention. [read post]
