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US Attorney should prosecute TYC abuse cases Hidalgo DA eschewed

The Texas Youth Commission sex abuse debacle last year left the battered agency languishing in conservatorship after the press revealed that the local DA failed to prosecute allegations that a West Texas State School supervisor sexually assaulted male prisoners under his charge. The Legislature reacted by creating new infrastructure to investigate abuses at TYC, but if local DAs and grand juries won't pursue charges, that doesn't help much. According to AP (June 28):Grand juries in Hidalgo County have opted against indictments in several cases of alleged criminal abuse at Evins Regional Juvenile Center, two years after investigators uncovered systemic civil rights violations at the facility. Of the eight cases of alleged staff-on-youth violence considered by grand jurors in the past year, none have resulted in criminal indictments, The (McAllen) Monitor reported in a story for its Sunday editions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 04, 2008 (boomark / email).