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As I spend time this on working on projects for which people are actually paying me (and thank heavens for them!), here are a few items that might otherwise deserve more detailed adumbration:Drugging youth convictsThe site Youth Today has a good feature on the use of psychotropic meds behind bars among juveniles, focusing much of the article on Texas Youth Commission chief Cherie Townsend's efforts to reduce the agency's off-label use of anti-psychotic drugs. When Townsend took charge at TYC, 70% of youth taking atypical anti-psychotics had never been diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, which are the ailments the drugs were created to treat.Time for a DA's mea culpaThe Corpus Christi Caller Times editorial board says Adan Muñoz, the head of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, deserves an apology after the Sheriff and Nueces District Attorney tried to pursue him on criminal charges for publicly revealing problems at the county jail...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 30, 2010 (boomark / email).