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Busy day at capitol on juvie, women's corrections

Regrettably, I won't be able to attend two events at the capitol today that look really interesting: the House Corrections Committee meeting this morning on women and corrections and the juvie justice summit going on simultaneously at the capitol. Thankfully, both will be broadcast online and archived, so I'll try to watch them soon. You can watch the Corrections Committee live here beginning at 9 a.m., and the juvie justice summit will be streamed online here.I received this press release this morning from Texans Care for Children, the group holding the juvie justice summit:Juvenile Corrections System Acts as Mental Health Provider of Last Resort for Many Texas FamiliesPanelists at Thursday Capitol Summit on Mental Health and Juvenile Justice will explore the issueAUSTIN ? A Texas parent who resorted to turning her mentally ill son over to the Texas Youth Commission so he could get treatment and the mother of a Texas child with disabilities, incarcerated from ages 10-15, for a misdemeanor are among the families whose stories will be shared at a special Texas Summit on Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Thursday...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 28, 2010 (boomark / email).