14-yr-old got up to 7 years for pushing a hall monitor
A special review of Texas Youth Commission inmates has resulted in the planned release of 226 youths whose sentences were determined to have been improperly extended, the agency announced Friday.
“These are 226 kids who would have been sitting in TYC if this review had not been done,” spokesman Jim Hurley said.
TYC has been under intense scrutiny this year amid a scandal over staff sexual relations with inmates and violence in the system.
Among the complaints was that some youths were kept in the system for years beyond their minimum sentences for minor rules violations.
After review, more than one of every five inmates in the study was found to have had their sentences extended – for no good reason. Could it be that sexual abuse and racism – or complaints about abuse and racism – were the real reasons for keeping them in the slammer?
Nah! Not in a moral state like Texas.
this hasn’t even scratched the surface of the crimes committed by the officials in the juvenile correction institutes of Texas.
The wardens and guards were sexually abusing the kids and lengthening the sentences of those they “really liked” or those who refused. This situation was known by the officials running the institutions at the state level and they tried to cover it up while doing little to stop it. An expose by a television station finally brought it to light after an investigation of over a year.
The worthless Gov of Texas finally got involved and fired all the officials at the state level and yet no charges have been filed on any one except the worst of the offenders
All involved should be convicted and sent away
Hmmmm….. Who here thinks that Texas is the ONLY state that has problems like this?
#1, The worthless Gov of Texas
Hear, hear !! I can’t believe Rick Perry was re-elected. Since mom told me “If you can’t say anything nice about someone, don’t say anything at all”, I’m not saying anything.
[Mr. Subliminal says, “Perry, what a Jerk”].
I fine this all funny. releasing all these people won’t solve anything. they did crimes to get into prison in the first place. by releasing them, your sending them back into the envirorment they came from, will commit a more serious crime, and end up back into prison with an even longer sentence due to having felony convictions against them in the first place.
I’m sure some guard is gonna tell them “don’t worry you’ll be back” right when they leave.
the moral is: DON”T COMMIT A CRIME IN THE FIRST PLACE.
#4, joe, you sound like a typical red neck, reli-con, bigot. Does pushing a monitor warrant seven years in jail? Only an asshole would agree it does. Many locked up in Texas have received inordinate sentences for the “crimes” committed. Second, while in jail (I hate to call it a juvenile facility) very few ever receive any counseling or mental health treatment. Shoot, the medical facilities in Texas rate near the bottom.
Yes, many will return, but washing your hands of all of them is plain stupid. Mistreating them while there is criminal.
I find it amusing that anytime a negative story mentions Texas, a lot of the people who think they are progressive jump on the “redneck” bashing bandwagon. This simply demonstrates their lack of intelligence and education in that they generalize an entire population based on sterotypes that they *think* they understand and/or know something about. Texas has a huge variety of people and cultures and where I live, if you go outside much, you’ll probably have a red neck too. Sun does that you know. It doesn’t make me evil or bigoted though. BOO!!! Psych!!! LOL.