The Texas Legislature convened this January facing a big task: fixing the increasingly unstable youth prison system. Proposals on the table ranged from closing the state’s five remaining youth prisons ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The DOJ found that officers overused pepper spray, kept youths in ...

Houston ISD schools suspended homeless students from more than 100 days of school during the 2022-2023 school year for discretionary reasons, despite a state law that prohibits the practice, according ...

The U.S. Department of Justice found unconstitutional conditions at all five of Texas' juvenile detention facilities, where children were exposed to excessive force, sexual abuse, and, in the case of ...

A Houston Independent School District report shows homeless students were suspended for more than 100 days during the 2022–2023 school year. However, the state banned that practice years ago, the ...

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The U.S. Department of Justice found unconstitutional conditions at all five of Texas’ juvenile detention facilities, where children were exposed to excessive force, sexual abuse and in the case of ...