tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post6782933260892103508..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: 'Getting More for Less in Juvenile Justice'Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-56134156892402794072010-03-26T20:40:13.342-05:002010-03-26T20:40:13.342-05:00TYC, millions of youth? you are shameless.TYC, millions of youth? you are shameless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-568327041852445342010-03-25T21:48:01.262-05:002010-03-25T21:48:01.262-05:00In other words, you are a dumbass and irregardles,...In other words, you are a dumbass and irregardles, TYC will blame you for their failures; even though they actually failed you and millions of other youth. Just be glag that you are free of TYC and that mindless state agency in a loss state.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-53098868229193878662010-03-25T21:07:52.280-05:002010-03-25T21:07:52.280-05:00I am sure Sheldon did rely on government, he was i...I am sure Sheldon did rely on government, he was in college...from one institution to the next. It is unfortunate Sheldon that you did not have the same mindframe in TYC that you did in college. There are many youth that experience the exact same thing that you described during your college years, while in TYC. Guess it takes some longer than others to take advantage of the opportunities placed before them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-84075834047657306392010-03-25T13:29:28.501-05:002010-03-25T13:29:28.501-05:00Thanks for answering my question Sheldon......TYC ...Thanks for answering my question Sheldon......TYC and probation did not create your lifestyle change, you did!! You made my point for me, lifestyle changes are not made by probation officers, nor is it our role. These so-called juvenile justice experts who are merely philosophical ignorants have concluded that the system can fix the dysfunctional lifestyles of our offenders. My department has offered many juveniles the opportunity to change their lifestyle and to be placed in a residential facility on a long term basis but none of them accept the offer....they don't want change! I commend you for taking responsibility for your life and not relying on the government to give you happiness. The more our country relies on government to make their lives happy, the more we will be disappointed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-34110746104840322932010-03-25T11:29:29.201-05:002010-03-25T11:29:29.201-05:00The lifestyle on a college campus is somewhat diff...The lifestyle on a college campus is somewhat different than the outlaw lifestyle. It’s like language emersion. What relatively little Spanish I learned in tyc or Hebrew I learned in Hebrew school was ok, but I wasn’t fluent. After an immersion in Mexican culture and Israeli culture for a month or so I was fairly fluent. This metamorphic change occurs as a natural progression. One day you wake up and realize that your dreaming in a language other than your native Texan. Same with the college lifestyle, one day you wake up and realize how foolish your old outlaw buddies are and you avoid them until one day they are no longer part of your world.<br />The Probation/Parole officer is limited in that change process because of state oversight of their job coupled with budget constraints. However back in the late 70’s early 80’s there wasn’t this crazy layer of tax payer expense to oversee county Probation/Parole officers but there were still the budget constraints thereby causing enormous caseloads. Because offenders need attention and like to act a fool the easiest thing an offender could do is get revoked. To the PO, especially one with SPS, it’s one less ass wipe on the case load never mind the judge has 10 more to replace them. In actually due to the constraints placed on the Probation/Parole officer, they hinder the change process. <br />I tell offenders to stay under the radar, a political correct way of saying don’t get caught. People are amazed when I tell them I was in Gatesville, not just now but ever since about my junior year of college. The old saying if you quack like a duck you must be a duck applies. But if you are under supervision of the state for being a duck you had better not quack, at least don’t quack around the wrong people. Same for offenders, it’s natural for them to act a fool, so don’t act a fool around the wrong people. When I say act a fool I mean victimless crimes that have been criminalize during the last several decades of moving our society towards a police state. I certainly don’t advocate victimizing people.<br />Probation is like making a hotel reservation, it’s up to the offender if they want to keep it, Probation/Parole officers just do the paperwork. And today, lots a damn paperwork.<br /> Sheldon tyc#47333 II c/sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-12947548093637080192010-03-23T15:10:14.432-05:002010-03-23T15:10:14.432-05:00Sheldon, I think your insight is helpful. I agree...Sheldon, I think your insight is helpful. I agree with your comment that it takes a lifestyle change, which most offenders don't know how to accomplish. So, what was it for you that caused the lifestyle change and does a probation officer have much of a chance to help cause the change while holding offenders accountable to the Court?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-26976891622838622542010-03-23T11:42:19.258-05:002010-03-23T11:42:19.258-05:00It’s all good 3/22/2010 1:28, I was hoping a stere...It’s all good 3/22/2010 1:28, I was hoping a stereotype would chime in because 12:13 is an almost perfect example of the kind of PO who makes it easy to skate. You play to their arrogance, it’s a manipulative trick I learned in tyc. I was able to import so much contraband and get away with so much crap by simply playing to the arrogance of the redneck boss’ in tyc and with the red nick PO’s in the free. Once I was switched to a female PO but I had something for that as well. But, by far the arrogant PO’s and boss’ were my favorite because they are so caught up in their own self its really a no brainer to get over on them. So for me if I were to be in a position to be supervised, I would want someone with SPS, small penis syndrome, like anonymous 12:13 to be my PO. But I’m not like that anymore and am truly remorseful for anyone who had the misfortune of having to supervise me back in the day. Although realizing that how I dealt with the PO’s led to the success I have today. <br /><br />Let me repeat for those of you with sps, it’s the lifestyle change that led to the charmed life I have today. Not doing what came natural for a state boy like getting over on some poor sob with sps. FIX THE KID. It’s no wonder engineers and scientist think the word science should be removed from the phrase social science. These problems we have with juvi justice seem so easy to engineer a fix but there seems to be this culture where their so busy covering their ass and criticizing anyone who offers an idea that could lead to a solution. <br /><br />And at this point in my life I would pity the PO who had to supervise me, even if my attorneys and political connections allowed any foolishness to get that far. I certainly don’t fit the demographics of today’s so called offenders who are sadly used to feed the societal failure we loosely call the criminal justice system in Texas. I respect LE but loath how in Texas it especially attracts so many ignorant people who suffer with sps it gives the whole profession in Texas a bad reputation.<br /><br />Sheldon tyc#47333 II c/sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-5734170511697185562010-03-22T18:19:20.794-05:002010-03-22T18:19:20.794-05:00TYC is a failed organization. It is on life suppor...TYC is a failed organization. It is on life support and the machine needs to be disconnected. Change has only made the system more rotten and supervision has deteriorated to its lowest point. Even shock treatment can not save this bastard outlaw pool. Turn out the lights; the party is over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-64767156288051042812010-03-22T17:29:50.439-05:002010-03-22T17:29:50.439-05:00Texas juveniles would be better off and the public...Texas juveniles would be better off and the public also, if there was no TDCJ, Probation/parole or TYC!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-10728210185281187692010-03-22T16:57:14.514-05:002010-03-22T16:57:14.514-05:00makes you wonder how the kid escaped from Al Price...makes you wonder how the kid escaped from Al Price last Friday -- the public's safety was jeopardized for about 6 hours- i guess it will take an innocent person to get victimized before TYC makes some changes- someone needs to shut down the agency and let someone else run it who specializes in corrections- the bleeding hearts need to goAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-74095308006273524462010-03-22T15:57:52.981-05:002010-03-22T15:57:52.981-05:00I do love how people who sit on the throne believe...I do love how people who sit on the throne believe they know what is good for the juvenile departments across the state. First TJPC with their lack of experience now this guy who has no clue what happens within a department. Foundations who have bleeding hearts trying to set policy for us in the trenches. Well HEAR ME...... walk a mile in my shoes and YOU TOO will have blisters. Put on your work jeans, not your suits get your hands dirty and see how the real world works. I have heard several chiefs make the offer to TJPC for them to go to their departments and work their standards, which hasn't happened. I challenge Levine to go to a working department and get his hands dirty. If I had a detention center I would offer mine. Marc, go to any medium size county to small county and see how it is to work with kids when you have no money or resources. Budget cuts are demanded by the state legislature. Why has TJPC and TYC not cut their staff and money and leave the money funnelled to the children of the state alone.<br />Marc Levine, get out of Austin and work in a facility for a week or a month.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-7327602213750773142010-03-22T14:55:34.721-05:002010-03-22T14:55:34.721-05:00I love the picture on the cover of the report. Lo...I love the picture on the cover of the report. Looks alot like the picture on the TJPC website. <br /><br />Hey Mark, for your next report, I have some pictures of actual juveniles taken from their myspace page. They include drugs, gang related poses, and of course, guns! If your going to be an expert on juvenile justice in Texas, maybe you should familiarize yourself with actual delinquents.<br /><br />The picture of the bed with a teddy bear is a nice touch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-54642991651705814812010-03-22T13:28:05.945-05:002010-03-22T13:28:05.945-05:00WOW 12:13....way to build up a guys character and ...WOW 12:13....way to build up a guys character and self esteem. YOU are in the wrong business....you don't help...you make the situation worse. Resign now, you red-neck Ist degree idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-54779865030389540042010-03-22T12:13:42.047-05:002010-03-22T12:13:42.047-05:00Sheldon, you would have never "skated" u...Sheldon, you would have never "skated" under my supervision. I'd nail your ass and all the little punk-thugs like you who try to skate around my supervision. You just lucked out with whoever supervised your ass. Consider yourself lucky, but your line of thinking tells me you'll re-offend again, if not already.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-74784948009674039692010-03-22T10:52:02.934-05:002010-03-22T10:52:02.934-05:00HOw did all this get off track. The report is ver...HOw did all this get off track. The report is very flawed in certain areas but on the other hand some new programs are brought up. The drug court concept is great. I have heard about it but this is the first indepth description I have seen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-49726908929284578742010-03-22T10:45:41.572-05:002010-03-22T10:45:41.572-05:00I am glad someone takes probation enforcement seri...I am glad someone takes probation enforcement seriously. WF county and Bexar County along with a few others I heard about have strict probation enforcement programs and everyone should use them as models.<br />I won't arm my staff in my small county but if I was in a medium to large size I certainley would.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-54683500274604027842010-03-22T10:41:02.991-05:002010-03-22T10:41:02.991-05:00I have stated before, too many people trying to ru...I have stated before, too many people trying to run other people's county department. Starts from TJPC who has no clue what occurs in a county department to the people from Casey Foundation to chief in 1 county trying to ramrod departments all over with his ideas.<br />We have all lost our identity and purpose in the world of Juvenile Probation. FIX THE KIDS, not each other.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-66483649181184405832010-03-22T10:37:12.883-05:002010-03-22T10:37:12.883-05:00Why does TJPC feel the need to be "gun toters...Why does TJPC feel the need to be "gun toters" and "Law Enforcement"?<br />I hope our county allows us to carry. Parts of Houston are SCARY especially for a young white female going to make a home visit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-64325082954888494502010-03-22T10:32:12.987-05:002010-03-22T10:32:12.987-05:00makes you wonder how he escaped-- if he didn't...makes you wonder how he escaped-- if he didn't go over or under the fence--hmmm-- sounds like possibly he had some help-- if the public knew what went on at Al Price- they would be appalled- the youth run the facility-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-355337647066298442010-03-21T21:48:33.048-05:002010-03-21T21:48:33.048-05:00WHY do the TYC people feel they are above the laws...WHY do the TYC people feel they are above the laws of the land and continue to show how many morons work at that agency? They help kids? Damn the bunch of freeloaders employed there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-81792160072472769222010-03-21T20:12:30.523-05:002010-03-21T20:12:30.523-05:00Missing TYC inmate foundMissing TYC inmate foundAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-30966120757998760502010-03-21T20:10:09.191-05:002010-03-21T20:10:09.191-05:00http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/missi...http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/missing_tyc_inmate_found.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-49898564560678738742010-03-21T19:15:22.920-05:002010-03-21T19:15:22.920-05:00Supervision is successful when done within the con...Supervision is successful when done within the confines of the office. If you stay in your office, you are less likely to uncover violations of probation. If the offender doesn't receive violations of probation, they are less likely to be revoked. If the offender is not revoked, they successfully complete probation.<br /><br />I realize this is considered sarcasm, but it’s so true. This is the secret to skating out a crazy probation. If it went for this I would have died in prison long ago. I went to college as a front to keep off the PO radar. I did it long enough to earn a BSEE from UT. Learned chemistry and beat those lame ass drug test. Hay after a few years in tyc on the med wagon I had to self medicate to study, Electrical Engineering at UT is hard unlike cop or guard school at Sam Houston. I have four awesome kids and a great wife. All of this is thanks to the policy of over loading PO case loads in an industry filled with people who are too lazy to get a real college degree and had to settle for something in criminal justice. <br /><br />This is not sarcasm its fact, it’s how to skate out a probation/parole. Here in lies the twist so listen up you CJ people, being in college changed my lifestyle, I was in a not outlaw environment. Change in lifestyle meant change in life. What started out as just another game to beat the man resulted in a lifestyle change that generated a wonderful future for me. That the trick lifestyle change or as I like to say break norms.<br /><br />So you people keep sniping at each other it keeps you ineffective and gives people a chance to skate. However I wonder how many skate like I did. And remember according to tyc thinking if you have a problem with the material in Raped by the State, you must be guilty of perpetrating that material.<br /><br />Sheldon tyc#47333 II c/sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-21641643506172412612010-03-21T18:35:53.713-05:002010-03-21T18:35:53.713-05:00A problem that just doesn't go away:
A Justic...A problem that just doesn't go away:<br /><br />A Justice Department study shows that female staff are more often implicated than their male counterparts in prison sexual misconduct. <br /><br />Experts say there is a culture of silence in the prisons that makes it difficult for female guards to come forward with problems before they spin out of control.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-68921194167876726072010-03-21T15:37:31.697-05:002010-03-21T15:37:31.697-05:00No where in my post did I say or imply that guns m...No where in my post did I say or imply that guns make probation more effective; that was never our argument. We simply wanted to provide the option for certain officers that work primarily in the field.<br /><br />BWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com