New law designed to protect Texans from being jailed for minor traffic tickets has resulted in 300,000 fewer arrest warrants, announces Rep. Canales.
New law protects Texans from being jailed for minor traffic tickets
Youth Justice
Probation Sets Up Young Adults for Failure: Report
The Texas Criminal Justice coalition calls for reforms to community supervision that are “developmentally appropriate” to young people who age out of the juvenile justice system but are still too immature to understand the consequences of their behavior.
Summit Meeting at State Capitol on Juvenile Crime
What is the best way to deal with juvenile crime? A summit meeting at the state capitol is trying to come up with that answer.
Texas prisons consider transfer of youth to former death row unit on heels of rape investigation
The Texas prison system is considering moving youthful offenders from a Brazoria prison to the former death row unit in Huntsville on the heels of a rape investigation, according to one lawmaker and multiple sources within the agency.
In Houston, outrage over a school arrest that landed a student in immigration detention
The Houston school district is under fire after a student without legal status ended up in immigration detention following his arrest by a school police officer for an altercation with a female student.
Austin High School students protest arrest of immigrant student booked into jail for assault
More than 300 Stephen F. Austin High School students walked out during their lunch break Wednesday to protest the arrest of a Honduran teen who landed in immigrant detention after a fight at school.
Texas may shutter some juvenile prisons in push to shift youth closer to home
If everything goes as planned, Texas could shutter some of its state-run juvenile prisons over the next five years, according to the newly installed director of the troubled Texas Juvenile Justice Department.
Gov. Greg Abbott Taps Former Ranger To Head The State’s Juvenile Justice Department
There’s a shakeup going on at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department after a Dallas Morning News investigation revealed widespread allegations of different types of abuse.
4 current and former juvenile prison employees arrested following Texas Rangers investigation
It's been a rough month for the state's scandal-plagued juvenile lock-ups. The string of shake-ups at the top. The flurry of concern over moving kids to adult prison. The cloud of concern from the sex abuse scandal.
“They’re just setting those babies up for the penitentiary”: How minor offenses feed overcrowding at Houston youth jail
Across Texas, kids are getting into less trouble with the law even though the state population is exploding. So why is Harris County's juvenile detention center bursting at the seams?