Advocates Overwhelmingly Oppose Expanding Juvenile Jail Campus
They say services shouldn’t be tied to incarceration
"...The Travis County Juvenile Probation Department has a big ask. It wants the..."
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July 5, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
$250M Proposal To Expand Juvenile Detention Facilities Under Consideration
Commissioners court will decide whether we need more buildings
"...proposing a plan to create new buildings to hold juveniles accused of crimes. Once again, advocates oppose the plan...."
June 25, 2024 News Post by Brant Bingamon
Austin's Juvenile Court Resists Publicly Addressing Criticisms of Racial Bias
A quiet court
"...The Juvenile Court doesn't get a lot of press, but it..."
July 14, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson
Probation Failing Young Offenders
Texas Criminal Justice Coalition report says there has to be a better way
"...has just issued a report on the use of probation for youthful offenders in Texas. "Young Adults and Community..."
Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Michael King
How Texas Youth Commission Fell
The scandal engulfing the Texas Youth Commission has claimed some scalps, but will the Legislature demand more?
"...serious sexual abuse of inmates at the Evins Regional Juvenile Center in Edinburg and the West Texas State School..."
March 1, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
The Debate Over How and Whether to Jail Kids in Austin Is Just Getting Started
Travis County proposes a new facility to hold kids accused of crimes
"...arrested six weeks later, taken to the Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center, and held on suspicion of murder...."
Jan. 26, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
TYC: Will the Lege Drain the Gulag?
State government starts long, protracted, and expensive era of oversight, litigation, and structural changes to discredited agency
"...the House floor: The most controversial, which would allow juveniles guilty of multiple misdemeanors to be sent to TYC,..."
May 11, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
‘Against the Grain’ of Justice
Committee hears testimony on treatment of young offenders
"...this way. For many veteran stakeholders of the state's juvenile justice system, this one-size-fits-all approach doesn't make sense. "I..."
March 25, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith
Money for Nothing
Millions of Williamson County taxpayer dollars pour into a contractor's pocket, and no one seems to know why.
"...of the epoxy-sealed floors of the new Williamson County Juvenile Justice Center, it is also a story that might..."
Aug. 15, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith
An End to TYC's Problems ... and to TYC?
The Sunset Advisory Commission recommends drastic action to remedy the problems plaguing the Texas Youth Commission: dissolve the agency
"...old San Saba State School, run by the state's juvenile prison system, the Texas Youth Commission...."
Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Sunsetting TYC: Will It Stick?
The Sunset Commission's close vote makes TYC's Lege fate hard to predict
"...Texas Youth Commission and merge it with the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission to form a new juvenile justice and..."
Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
TYC Sees Light at End of Tunnel
Youth Commission just might catch a break
"...core recommendation to merge the TYC and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission. Instead, the bill proposes a Juvenile Justice..."
May 8, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Gridiron Gang
The Rock's moral football tale is a pleasant surprise: a swift, sure-footed, and gritty melodrama that plays to the strengths of its formula and elicits empathy for its kids.
"...based on an eponymous television documentary filmed inside California juvenile detention center Camp Kilpatrick, so audiences can be excused..."
Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Color of Justice
A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.
"...felony convictions, who would otherwise have been eligible for probation, received staggering sentences. Freddie Brookins, 22, received 20 years..."
July 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee
The Candidates
"...Kathy Bedford SmithProfessional: Judicial services manager and probation officer, Travis County Juvenile Probation Department; helped develop county's..."
Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature
Naked City
Youth, Justice, and Money
"...Youth Commission -- the institutional arm of the state's juvenile justice system -- with the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission...."
Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Sunset Comes in Many Colors
How agencies are faring at the Sunset Advisory Commission
"...a staff recommendation to merge it and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission. But two of the nay votes –..."
May 22, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the state, and beyond
"...for pending proposals to unify TYC and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, she said, "Better for them to be..."
Feb. 13, 2009 News Feature
Everything Under the Sun(set)
The Sunset Advisory Commission looks toward the 81st legislative session
"...its new Office of Independent Ombudsman, and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission. In their report, Sunset staff recommended that..."
Dec. 26, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Postmarks
Death Penalty Violates Constitution
"...was presented as evidence of George's difficult upbringing; a juvenile probation report was presented. Manuel was also called as..."
Jan. 29, 1999 Column
What TYC Security?
Perry appointee bounced from youth prisons job after two months
"...a former judge, a former commissioner of the Texas Juvenile Probation and the Dallas County Juvenile Advisory Board, but..."
Dec. 1, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
TYC: 11th Hour Reform or Midnight Sunset
Texas Youth Commission reformers keeping options open with alternate plans
"...widely-criticized Texas Youth Commission and the less unpopular Texas Juvenile Probation Commission...."
April 8, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Sunset for TYC?
Staff recommend replacing youth prisons and probation services with single agency, citing systemic failures in both
"...the agency and its supposed partner body, the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, and replacing them with one agency, the..."
Nov. 12, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Southwest Key & Their Contracts
County votes to continue contract with nonprofit, city to deliberate on Aug. 30
"...six SWKey contracts with the county that deals with juvenile justice programs; votes to renew others are likely before..."
Aug. 24, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma
More to the Story
Advocates work to change the conversation around human trafficking
"...been trafficked. After she eventually opened up to her juvenile probation officer about the horrors she had endured, the..."
April 22, 2016 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen
Sunset: End Texas Youth Commission
Legislative committee votes narrowly to combine juvenile probation and prison systems
"...dissolve the agency and merge it with the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission to become the Texas Juvenile Justice Department...."
Jan. 15, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Senators Weigh in on Sunsetting TYC
Whitmire backs closing agency, Hinojosa wants more time
"...Pretty much everyone agrees: how Texas treats juvenile offenders has been historically useless (if it worked so..."
Nov. 14, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker
AISD Trustee Races Set
Place 9 tussle draws big-name endorsers
"...volunteers with Foundation Communities and works for Travis County Juvenile Probation.)..."
March 9, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker
How Long Is 140 Days?
As the 81st Legislature departs, does it leave a footprint?
"...due of the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, plus – victims of their own success..."
June 12, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
The Sunset Shuffle
Legislature moves the massive Health and Human Services review back two years
"...compliance reviews for Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, and the job becomes gargantuan...."
May 31, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
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