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Nuther lawsuit vs. TYC filed alleging staff on youth brutality at Evins unit

By Gritsforbreakfast

As a legislative oversight committee grilled TYC administrators in Austin this afternoon, another civil rights suit was filed by a former inmate against the Evins unit in the Rio Grande Valley, which was already the subject of federal litigation and a recent Agreed Order. According to the Monitor ("Teen accuses Evins staff of abuse," Feb. 22):A former teenage resident claims a staff member at the troubled detention center threw him to the ground and violently attacked him after a raucous group therapy session in July 2007.The incident left 15-year-old Robert Romero Jr. with a dislocated hip, fractured pelvis and a ruptured artery in his thigh, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week against Evins and the Texas Youth Commission, which oversees the detention center...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).