Youth Won't Be Discharged Without Services
AUSTIN — The Texas Youth Commission will stop releasing young offenders who are too mentally ill to rehabilitate until the agency is sure they’re receiving proper treatment in the community, officials said Tuesday.
Dozens of juvenile offenders with serious mental illness are released from TYC lock-ups every year because they’re too sick to treat — not because they’re no longer a threat to the community. In the last five years, the agency has discharged hundreds of youth under this mental illness statute.
One was a schizophrenic and psychotic 16-year-old who fatally stabbed a Tyler high school teacher in September ...
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