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TYC history repeats itself - possibly at 10 a.m. this morning

With the joint Texas House-Senate committee on oversight for the Texas Youth Commission meeting this morning at 10 a.m., it was timely for Texas A&M San Antonio Prof. Bill Bush, a regular Grits commenter and historian who's writing a book on the Texas Youth Commission, to publish the first installment (pdf) of a history of the agency in collaboration with our friends at the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition.(Those interested in the TYC hearing can go here for the live feed - scroll down past the very important item "to Study the Practice of Breeding White-Tailed and Mule Deer")In the introduction, Bush returns to a theme he's repeated often in reaction to various reforms by the agency and the Legislature in discussions here on Grits:juvenile justice agencies and policymakers have often repeated past mistakes - almost verbatim...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).