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Aug. 1—The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday announced its findings following an extensive investigation into claims of abuse, deprivation of essential services and disability-related ...
In an emailed statement to The Independent, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department said: “At TJJD we are continually working to improve our operations and services to the youth in our care and ...
The U.S. Justice Department found on Thursday that Texas has routinely violated the civil rights of juveniles at five of its detention facilities by using excessive force, failing to protect them ...
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe. Guards accused the teen of faking it and forced him to do pushups in his own vomit, according to Texas law enforcement reports ...
In 1918, the Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (TFCWC) began to petition the state of Texas to create a "state-sponsored home for delinquent girls" and the club would donate the land. [4] A member of the club, Carrie Adams, was very vocal in the need to create a training school for "delinquent black girls."
The Gainesville State School is a juvenile correctional facility of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department in unincorporated Cooke County, Texas, [1] near Gainesville.The fenced, maximum security state school is located on a 160-acre (65 ha) tract east of Gainesville, [2] 75 miles (121 km) north of Dallas, along Farm to Market Road 678 and near Interstate 35.
In the common law legal system, an expungement or expunction proceeding, is a type of lawsuit in which an individual who has been arrested for or convicted of a crime seeks that the records of that earlier process be sealed or destroyed, making the records nonexistent or unavailable to the general public. If successful, the records are said to ...
Youth lockups in Texas remain beset by sexual abuse, excessive use of pepper spray and other mistreatment including the prolonged isolation of children in their cells, the Justice Department said ...