Topic: Texas Youth Commission
Training Schools refer to state run juvenile detention centers (jail) for teens. However, the Department of Justice can pressure them to improve through litigation.Between 2003-07, Columbia Training School , for girls, in Mississippi was sued twice for alleged abuses. Due to both ...
The Texas Border Gang Prevention Coordination Assistance Program distributes grant funding to police agencies throughout the state of Texas to help pay for community programs that are designed to promote gang prevention and provide alternatives to youth who are following the wrong ...
Advocates decry policy that frees mentally ill Texas juvenile offenders without supervisionA 16-year-old former juvenile detainee is accused of stabbing a high school teacher to death with a butcher knife. Another teen was convicted of killing a roofer during a 30-minute robbery ...
Sex abuse case against 2 former Texas juvenile jail administrators moves forward in courtTwo former Texas Youth Commission administrators have been ordered to appear in court in a long-delayed case on charges alleging they sexually abused teenage inmates.Ward County court records ...
Sex abuse case against pair of former Texas juvenile jail administrators stalls againMore than two years ago, a pair of former administrators at a remote West Texas juvenile prison were indicted on charges accusing them of sexually preying on teenage boys at ...
Will Harrell entered the grounds of the Giddings State School, a high-security youth lockup in Central Texas, and immediately drove off-road, steering his shiny black Jeep along the facility's fenced perimeter. Harrell, a barrel-chested 41-year-old with a black ponytail, became the ...
Texas Commission Fires 7 Employees at Vacated Juvenile Prison After Report on Poor ConditionsThe Texas Youth Commission fired seven employees, including four quality assurance monitors, in response to a report of juvenile inmates living in squalid conditions at a West Texas lockup ...
Texas Juveniles Ordered Moved Over Concerns About Center's Safety, Sanitary ConditionsJuvenile prison officials ordered the removal of young offenders from a privately run juvenile detention center on Monday, citing unsanitary and unsafe conditions.A Texas Youth Commission official found unsanitary conditions ...
Texas Youth Commission Settles Lawsuit Over Use of Pepper Spray on Unruly Young OffendersA new settlement restricts the use of pepper spray on young offenders in the custody of the Texas Youth Commission, officials said.The settlement, reached Friday, rescinds a commission ...
Lawsuit Seeks to Stop Texas Juvenile Prisons From Using Pepper SprayTwo advocacy groups on Thursday asked a court to stop the Texas Youth Commission from permitting the use of pepper spray to subdue unruly juvenile prisoners before other forms of restraint.The ...
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Texas Youth Commission - Katherine Davis Interview...
Katherine Davis, Community Relations Coordinator at the McLennan County State ...2011-06-27 -
TYC abuse allegations
More bad news for the Texas juvenile prison system.2010-08-25 -
Juvenile Detention Sex Abuse Scandal 1 ...
Pt1/2. Texas Ranger Testifies About Abuse at Texas Youth ...2011-02-12
