More change is coming to the Texas Youth Commission.Its chief watchdog, Ombudsman John Moore, will be leaving September first. His replacement will have to be appointed by the Governor. Moore ...

AUSTIN — Ed Owens effectively became the Texas Youth Commission czar Friday, vested with total power to rebuild an agency in administrative disarray and unable to guarantee the safety of youth ...

AUSTIN — A West Texas grand jury on Tuesday indicted two former administrators of a Texas Youth Commission lockup on multiple sex abuse charges, ending two years of inactivity in a case that has ...

The Sunset Advisory Commission today unanimously recommended consolidating the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission into one single youth justice division.

Overhauling the old Texas Youth Commission. Amid allegations of abuse more than a decade ago, the agency known as the Texas Youth Commission was restructured and renamed, ...

The Texas Youth Commission houses about 2,700 inmates ages 10 to 20 who are considered violent or chronically delinquent. The system is notorious for a history of riots, a staff turnover rate of ...

The Texas Juvenile Justice Department has been caught “in an endless cycle of crisis and instability” since it was created in 2011, following the closure of its predecessor, the Texas Youth ...

Police were sent to 22 Texas Youth Commission facilities and the agency headquarters on Tuesday to investigate claims that young inmates were sexually abused and that agency officials concealed it.