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Telepsychiatry at TYC: Can you imagine [a psychiatrist] having a paranoid person and telling them, 'Talk to the TV screen!'

By Gritsforbreakfast

Arriving home a couple of hours in, I've been listening to the TYC oversight hearing at the Texas Lege for the last hour or so, and a telling discussion arose about the lack of specialized treatment frequently ordered by courts for serious offenders.While capital offenders mostly get the treatment they need, the committee was told, other serious offenders do not. In response to questions from Rep. Sylvester Turner, it came out that only 40% of sex offenders sentenced to TYC receive the treatment that courts order for them.However, because limitations on state resources caused the youth to not receive treatment, the youth are not penalized and kept in the system longer, explained the attorney leading the release committee (who, in a small-world moment, it turns out was a roommate of mine in a past life, though I've not spoken to her for many years - Hi Karen!)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).