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What were the terms of TYC's settlement with the US Justice Department over the Evins unit?

The Texas Youth Commission and the US Justice Department entered into a settlement this week over allegations of abuse at the Evins unit in South Texas, but the MSM coverage was pretty vague and I haven't had time until this morning to review the Agreed Order itself (which Jim Hurley graciously emailed me upon request - it's not online).Here are some highlights:New Use of Force Rules: Under the previous executive director, use of force rules were revised near constantly, adding and removing pepper spray to the continuum and changing rules on manual restraints until nobody really knew what was going on. The new conservator backed off TYC's more frequent pepper spray use, but it's still not been clear what policies actually govern staff on the front lines...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 10, 2008 (boomark / email).