GritsforBreakfast reported last week that California may virtually abolish their youth prisons in favor of having the counties administer juvenile detention on their own. Due to a 2007 court order, California had already transfered most of their juvenile detention responsibilities to regional centers run by the counties. However, some still remain under the [...]
In November 2008, the Sunset Commission will issue a report with recommendations for TYC. (Link) The Sunset commission “periodically evaluate a state agency to determine if the agency is still needed, and what improvements are needed to ensure that state funds are well spent. Based on the recommendations of the Sunset Commission, the Texas Legislature [...]
As reported by the Child Welfare League of America, a bill has been introduced to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. The law is the largest source of federal funding for the improvement of states’ juvenile systems. As summarized on the Building Blocks for Youth website, Congress placed four stipulations on [...]
It was reported in the Houston Chronicle in the article ACLU Sues State Juvenile Prison System, that the American Civil Liberties Union was suing the Texas Youth Commission due to allegations that the TYC subjected female inmates to mistreatment and abuse.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit against the Texas Youth Commission on [...]
Cindy Lederman, a judge in Miami-Dade County’s juvenile court, describes some of her cases in a vignette of some of the crushing decisions that have to be made in the lives of children whose stories at times defy comprehension -
I’ve been a judge for 15 years in Miami Dade’s Juvenile Court. This is the most [...]
