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Local DAs in two counties keep no-billing TYC abuse cases

One of the main criticisms of the Texas Youth Commission's current structure has been the location of facilities in rural locales, making it hard to hire staff, nearly impossible to find specialized services, requiring overuse of "telemedicine" instead of on-site doctors, and boosting transportation costs during times of high gas prices.Yesterday in the Houston Chronicle, columnist Lisa Falkenberg suggested another problem with placing TYC facilities in rural areas: Insular, "friendly" small-town grand juries and prosecutors may be unwilling to charge TYC employees with abuse ("Are some grand juries too friendly?," May 15). Her story focuses on a no-billed case from December in Crockett: A guard pins an unruly teen inmate against a wall in a small room at a Texas Youth Commission facility in Crockett...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 16, 2008 (boomark / email).