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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 .
Giddings State School, a Texas Youth Commission facility in unincorporated Lee County, Texas. The United States incarcerates more of its youth than any other country in the world, through the juvenile courts and the adult criminal justice system, which reflects the larger trends in incarceration practices in the United States.
The Texas Youth Commission (TYC) was a Texas state agency which operated juvenile corrections facilities in the state. The commission was headquartered in the Brown-Heatly Building in Austin . As of 2007, it was the second largest juvenile corrections agency in the United States, after the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice . [ 1 ]
A report from the Texas Rangers, the state’s premier law enforcement unit, laid out a chilling portrait of neglect. Other inmates at the facility had told investigators that they knew something was wrong with Alexander in early January. He had stopped eating, his lips turned purple, and he shivered even while taking hot showers.
Jan. 11—A judge who has presided over the Montgomery County Juvenile Court for the last 18 years and helped transform it using specialized dockets and technology will retire at the end of the year.
The U.S. Justice Department says that Texas juvenile detention centers have violated children's Eighth and 14th Amendment rights, as well as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 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 ...
An eight-hour-long trial was held in Montgomery County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. According to a report in the Washington Post , "one of the girls wept as she recounted how she and two friends met the players at a Tech women's basketball game Jan. 27 and, after sneaking out of a house during a slumber party, went in Vick's sport ...