AP:
Lawmakers outraged by allegations of sexual abuse of juvenile inmates and a coverup within the Texas Youth Commission promised to hold officials accountable and hinted they might try to take over the troubled agency.
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A Texas Rangers investigation in 2005 found that the prison’s assistant superintendent and the school’s principal had repeated sexual contact with inmates. Neither of the investigations have resulted in criminal charges, though Whitmire said a special prosecutor is on the case. The officials allegedly involved resigned in 2005.
But what about inmates that abuse other inmates, especially non-white inmates doing the abusing, and white inmates being abused? That’s probably not on their radar screen.
The Senate panel is considering legislation that would create an independent investigator and increase youth corrections staff and training. It also would prevent the agency from housing inmates as young as 11 with inmates in their late teens and early 20s.
If age discrimination for the safety of inmates is okay, then what about racial separation?
