PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker announced the details of her Commission on Youth Engagement Monday as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Officials in Kerr County, Texas — where 27 campers and counselors at a Christian summer camp were killed in catastrophic ...

AUSTIN, TX – The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas announced today that Executive Director William C. Harrell will be appointed Ombudsman of the newly restructured Texas Youth Commission.

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 ...

Staffer credits interim choice as "fine," but only "temporary calm" in agency addressing multiple issues in and out of the ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...