The Justice Department concluded Thursday after a lengthy investigation that five Texas juvenile detention centers violated children's constitutional and civil rights, part of a nationwide pattern of ...

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

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

Read full article: ‘A pattern of abuse’: Conditions for children at 5 Texas Juvenile Justice facilities violate constitution The Justice Department announced Thursday of its findings that the ...

Texas juvenile detention centers have a decades-long ... their sentence in prison after aging out of juvenile centers. The abuse and neglect have long-lasting effects on an already vulnerable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...