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Texas Youth Commission still staggering toward reform

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Isett: TYC could be 'sunsetted'
Not much detail in the article, but the Lubbock Avalanche Journal reports that Sunset Commission Chair Carl Isett says the Texas Youth Commission may be either "phased out or restructured," as well as the Texas Transportation Commission...

TYC in the News
Here are a few newsclips regarding the Texas Youth Commission that cropped up this week while I was paying more attention to the Eldorado fiasco:McAllen Monitor: New settlment tackles reforms for Evins youth detention centerAmarillo Globe News: State Sen...

Grits for Breakfast: TYC Can Learn From NYC
Scott Henson at the Texas-based blog Grits for Breakfast read Wednesday’s New York Times story on the Juvenile Justice Initiative and thinks officials at the Texas Youth Commission should, too...

Evins JCO charged with peddling cocaine
As if the Texas Youth Commission doesn't have enough problems, a Juvenile Corrections Officer (JCO) at TYC's Evins Unit in South Texas was arrested along with his spouse for dealing cocaine, reports the Brownsville Herald:Alfonso Ibarra, a correctional officer with the Texas Youth Commission, and Melba Ibarra, an employee with the La Feria Independent School District, were both charged with possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, police said.

TYC Sunset report coming soon, new notification rule on meds released
Some readers may be interested in the Texas Youth Commission's new rules regarding giving youth psychotropic medication, particularly the part of the directive that declares:If a youth is prescribed psychotropic medication, the youth will be verbally notified and the parent/guardian will be notified via the Medication Notification Letter, Word Document HLS-190, of the diagnosis, name of the drug, purpose of the drug, potential side effects or complications of the drug, and safety precautions (if applicable)...

TYC hit on unbudgeted office expenditures
Grits commenters called this one months ago: The Dallas News reports today that the Texas Youth Commission spent $550,000 "meant for hiring new corrections officers on renovating and relocating offices ? even though lawmakers turned down their request for such spending...

TYC Drops Isolation
Citing this article in the Waco Tribune Herald, Grits for Breakfast brings the promising news that the Texas Youth Commission will no longer house violent youth in solitary confinement for extended periods of time, a punitive practice more appropriate for adult prisons than for juvenile offenders, who are ostensibly supposed to receive treatment in the [...

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