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Here at TJJD, our staff commit every day to keeping Texas communities safe and helping young people find a brighter, law-abiding future worth living. We believe deeply that the critical public service we provide is integral to keeping Texas strong.
The John R. Roach Juvenile Detention Center, located in McKinney, Texas, is a public facility that serves youth between the ages of 10 and 18 who have broken the law. The center provides educational services to both pre-adjudicated and post-adjudicated youth, offering them a chance to continue their education while in detention.
The Texas Juvenile Justice Department is a state agency focused on youth and public safety. We are looking for talented, dedicated professionals in positions that range from Juvenile Correctional Officers and Case Managers to Lawyers and Accountants.
In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, or more colloquially as juvie/juvy or the Juvey Joint, also sometimes referred to as observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they have ...
Juvenile correctional facilities must uphold the constitutional rights of juveniles during their confinement. This encompasses protection from cruel and unusual punishment, the right to adequate medical care, and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Facing youth prison crisis, Texas lawmakers opt to build new facilities and funnel more kids to adult system. For more than a decade, Texas has been trying to slim down its youth prison...
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]
In 2021, 87% of juveniles in adult correctional facilities were held in local jails and 13% were held in prisons, compared to 66% in local jails and 34% in prisons in 2002, the earliest year for which comparable data are available for both populations (table 1).
We must take every step possible to keep youth out of detention centers and correctional facilities. One of OJJDP’s latest solicitations—the FY 2022 Community-Based Alternatives to Youth Incarceration Initiative —supports this goal.