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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 ...
Officials at the state Department of Juvenile Justice did not respond to questions about YSI. A department spokeswoman, Meghan Speakes Collins, pointed to overall improvements the state has made in its contract monitoring process, such as conducting more interviews with randomly selected youth to get a better understanding of conditions and analyzing problematic trends such as high staff turnover.
[31] [32] In the 1960s TYC's reception center for boys was in Gatesville and its reception center for girls was in Brownwood. [ 33 ] TYC offenders may use the internet while working on certain projects for school; they are never allowed to access e-mail accounts and social networking sites like Facebook , MySpace , and Twitter .
Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term ...
The Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) is a state agency in Texas, headquartered in the Central Services Building (CSB) in Austin. It was created on December 1, 2011, replacing the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission .
Kim presides over Tarrant County’s 323rd District Court and the general operations of the Lynn W. Ross Juvenile Detention Center. The judge is elected every four years through a partisan race.
In another instance, a boy at Evins Regional Juvenile Center said a staff member slammed him to the floor and used his full body weight to pin him down while others put him in restraints.
Gatesville also housed the reception center for boys entering TYC. [8] In 1971 a class-action lawsuit was filed against the Texas Youth Council on behalf of the children in TYC facilities. In 1974 the school had 1,500 boys over 250 staff members. During that year, federal judge William Wayne Justice ruled on Morales v. Turman.