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Texas Youth Commission still staggering toward reform

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

EDITORIAL Texas Youth Commission still staggering toward reform Youth Commission efforts to expand facilities makes some sense but falls short Thursday, August 07, 2008 Austin American-Statesman The Texas Youth Commission is still struggling to right itself after last year's eruption of a scandal involving allegations of sexual abuse of minors by several employees, including some in supervisory positions, and the failure of the agency's senior administrators to act ? even, it appeared, to ignore or cover up the wrongdoing below. An angry Legislature demanded change, forcing Gov. Rick Perry to put the agency into conservatorship, dismissing its six-member commission and replacing much of its top leadership. The number of youths in custody was reduced...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 08, 2008 (boomark / email).