Top officials with the Texas Juvenile Justice Department told state lawmakers Monday that the alleged rampant abuse within the agency’s facilities were due to low staffing levels and aren’t ...

physical and sexual abuse in the state’s youth facilities. The governing board of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department is disputing the accuracy of a report by the U.S. Department of Justice ...

A new report found that a program used to isolate juveniles in their cell violates state law and that staff falsified ...

Officers at a juvenile detention center ... new abuse, neglect, or exploitation investigations if warranted,” Kessler wrote in an email. This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune ...

Texas Juvenile Justice Department has clearly neglected to prioritize its stated mission of creating "protective, not ...

Top officials with the Texas Juvenile Justice Department told state lawmakers Monday that the alleged rampant abuse within the agency’s facilities were due to low staffing levels and aren’t ...

A Texas Juvenile Justice Department report says Dallas County officers kept kids in their sleeping quarters for days at a ...

Detainees are moved from location to location within a Texas juvenile detention center in 2013 ... use on children and failure to apply sexual abuse reduction measures. The state’s report ...