The Texas Juvenile Justice Department announced in an email to county chief probation officers across the state last week that they were closed to new children. | via TPRNews
Gainesville State School in far north Texas is one of five rural facilities that detain high-needs often violent juvenile offenders.The Texas Juvenile Justice Department announced in an email to county chief probation officers across the state last week that they were closed to new kids. Youth from county facilities could no longer be referred to the state’s five rural detention centers due to extreme staffing shortages.
The “grim” situation was discussed at length in the TJJD’s sunset advisory review which is essentially a system-wide audit to ensure a department is still necessary to the state government. Carter described youth being kept in solitary rooms for 22 hours at a time due to the ongoing shortage of staff.
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