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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]
Juvenile detention centers in Texas, prisons for people under the age of 21, often termed juvenile delinquents, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term basis while awaiting trial or placement in a long-term care program.
It does not include federal prisons or county jails, nor does it include the North Texas State Hospital; though the facility houses those classified as "criminally insane" (such as Andrea Yates) the facility is under the supervision of the Texas Department of State Health Services. Facilities listed are for males unless otherwise stated.
A nearly three-year federal investigation into Texas juvenile detention centers operated by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department found that five facilities have violated children's constitutional ...
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 ...
The Gainesville State School is a juvenile correctional facility of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department in unincorporated Cooke County, Texas, [1] near Gainesville.The fenced, maximum security state school is located on a 160-acre (65 ha) tract east of Gainesville, [2] 75 miles (121 km) north of Dallas, along Farm to Market Road 678 and near Interstate 35.
Aug. 1—The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday announced its findings following an extensive investigation into claims of abuse, deprivation of essential services and disability-related ...
Detained young offenders can only be placed in detention centers that are registered by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, under the Texas Family Code. Registered facilities house, educate, train and rehabilitate young offenders, the treatment and programs are based on the needs of the individual within the facility. The Texas Juvenile ...