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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 ...
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 ...
The Sunset Advisory Commission today unanimously recommended consolidating the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission into one single youth justice division.
Three staffers led effort to overhaul the Texas Youth Commission . by Nate Blakeslee. June 15, 2007, 12:00 AM, CDT. In a session that will be ...
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 ...
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 terminated its contract Friday with a psychologist who testified repeatedly in death penalty cases that Hispanic and black men were more likely to be dangerous in the ...
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 ...
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.