texas youth commission

A handful of former juvenile inmates at the Texas Youth Commission will share their first-hand accounts of incarceration at the Capitol Wednesday.

A UT-Austin professor publishes an extraordinary and damning account of educational services at the Texas Youth Commission (see the art) (via Grits for Breakfast)

Texas lawmakers announced a push this week to eliminate the troubled Texas Youth Commission, which has been rocked by a sexual and physical abuse scandal in the past year.

Governor Rick Perry has named a former aide to President Bush as the new conservator of the troubled Texas Youth Commission.

The Texas Youth Commission's reforms were cited as examples for other prisons to follow at a national hearing in New Orleans last week, the commission's ombudsman said.

Local residents criticized the Texas Youth Commission's proposed draft of a use-of-force policy as vague, among other problems, at a public hearing Monday.

A compromise made Wednesday by the Texas Youth Commission with Texas Appleseed and Advocacy Inc. about the commission's use of pepper spray could be short-lived.

The Texas Youth Commission has resumed paying overtime to guards and will soon release overtime payments held back over the past month.