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15 Oct 2007, 11:18 pm
Texas Youth Commission conservator Ed Owens has finally produced his first-ever, statutorily required, months-overdue report to the Legislature on the progress of reform.His message: Get me the hell out of here! [read post]
1 Oct 2007, 11:32 pm
State officials followed up with an unannounced audit that began Wednesday and continued through the weekend, the Texas Youth Commission said Monday in a statement. [read post]
9 Aug 2008, 5:16 pm
"Texas has both a moral and legal obligation to remake a system that is crippling, then writing off, the state's most vulnerable children," the New York Times editorialized yesterday in reaction to the recent Ombudsman's report (pdf) on carceral education at the Texas Youth Commission, analyzed earlier by Grits here. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:31 am
The Texas Juvenile Probation Commission should provide a statewide detention screening instrument for the vast majority of probation departments that don’t have one.Another component of JDAI is alternatives to detention. [read post]
2 May 2012, 7:44 am
The report was for the Court’s Permanent Judicial Commission for Children Youth and Families, chaired by Justice Eva Guzman. [read post]
19 Jan 2008, 11:15 pm
" ("Texas Youth Commission defied lawmakers, spend funds on new offices," Jan. 20). [read post]
1 Aug 2008, 6:01 am
A couple of stories in the Dallas News this morning will pique the interest of readers following the Texas Youth Commission drama.How long for TYC conservatorship? [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 1:55 pm
The Texas Legislature passed a number of measures in 2007 after a sex abuse scandal rocked the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
20 May 2007, 11:11 am
Advocates for Texas Youth Commission inmates and their families have complained that sentences are often extended inconsistently or in retaliation for filing grievances. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 7:24 am
"Even assuming there are some false accusations in the mix, those are pretty startling data.MORE: Two Texas Youth Commission facilities - Corsicana and Victory Field - reported among the highest rates of sexual abuse of all secure juvenile facilities: respectively, 23.7 and 24.6 percent of youth at those facilities claimed to have engaged in sexual contact with facility staff, while 13.7 percent of youth at Corsicana said they'd been sexually… [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 5:00 pm
From Jurist (with links): The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] Thursday against the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) [official website], alleging that five girls imprisoned at the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional... [read post]
2 Mar 2007, 7:04 am
" Self explanatory.HB 1814 by Macias: "Relating to implementation of a comprehensive character education and training pilot program at certain Texas Youth Commission facilities. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 3:28 am
At the Texas Youth Commission, a probably unnecessary contract to re-categorize inmates was given with no bidding process to Gregg Phillips, a lobbyist friend of former state Rep. [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 6:03 am
Big hearing on Wednesday on the juvenile justice front: The House Corrections Committee will hear Chairman Jerry Madden's HB 1915, "Relating to abolishing the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and transferring the powers and duties of those agencies to the newly created Texas Juvenile Justice Department and to the functions of the independent ombudsman for the Texas Youth… [read post]
10 Jan 2009, 10:34 pm
Texas already has 32 post-adjudication facilities at the county level, costing $90 a day per youth compared to TYC's $153 per youth. [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 1:28 am
John Whitmire's plan to abolish or phase out the Texas Youth Commission.The Joint Select Committee on Texas Youth Commission Operations and Management will meet today at 10 a.m., and the online live feed for the event will be here once it begins.I've got a doctor's appointment so I'll miss much of the hearing and have to listen to the archived video once its done. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 8:32 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] Thursday against the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) [official website], alleging that five girls imprisoned at the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex [official website] were subjected to punitive solitary confinement, physical abuse and invasive strip searches. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 4:35 am
Five years after the allegations were investigated and three years after the underlying allegations hit the headlines, spurring massive upheaval at the agency, former Texas Youth Commission administrator Ray Brookins' trial finally began yesterday. [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 6:59 am
"Thousands of cases at the troubled Texas Youth Commission should be reviewed to determine whether inmates should be released immediately because their sentences were either improperly extended by agency staff or cannot be justified, an adviser to Gov. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 7:40 am
Texas should only consider prison closures, he has said, if inmate numbers organically decline.That's not the approach the Lege took at the Texas Youth Commission, though, which radically downsized in a relatively short period of time while juvenile crime declined at record rates. [read post]
