tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post6912110849492015185..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Texas Criminal Justice News RoundupGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-10118742021505066502007-05-25T09:23:00.000-05:002007-05-25T09:23:00.000-05:00read this!!!!!!!!!!!!http://www.statesman.com/news...read this!!!!!!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/05//25//25tyc.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-14371367960865251112007-05-24T16:09:00.000-05:002007-05-24T16:09:00.000-05:00My experience is that more girls will report a mal...My experience is that more girls will report a male staff for sexual misconduct as a way to manipulate staff... and boys who are engaging in sexual misconduct with female staff are not likely to report it. <BR/><BR/>Also, as a Male staff I have no desire to supervise female students during routines and TYC's preference has been not to allow male staff to do so. However, female staff often supervise i.e. watch male students shower.<BR/><BR/>Just societies doubel standard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-37713079777354173822007-05-24T14:50:00.000-05:002007-05-24T14:50:00.000-05:00anon at 2:06 - I don't think there's any way legal...anon at 2:06 - I don't think there's any way legally they can restrict staff at all-girls facilities to just women. Just as they cannot restrict staff to men at the boys facilities. It would likely violate all sorts of non-discrimination laws. Not to mention it would make it hard to adequately staff the facilities...we have a hard enough time with that now without that kind of gender restriction. <BR/><BR/>Not to mention that assumes all men are going to take advantage of girls. I have a higher opinion of most men than that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-78570151775959426702007-05-24T14:06:00.000-05:002007-05-24T14:06:00.000-05:00I understand the need to segregate the girls, and ...I understand the need to segregate the girls, and lets face it a majoirty of the girls (And boys) are in TYC becuase they refuse to follow societies rules, I only hope that with these changes and all female facilities that they use only female staff for direct supervisio and contact with females. This would cause fewer problems for staff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-46021896276793384582007-05-24T12:25:00.000-05:002007-05-24T12:25:00.000-05:00The vast majority of TYC youth were already segreg...The vast majority of TYC youth were already segregated by gender. They only had both boys and girls on the same campus at three facilities - Giddings (so they could have all the Capital Offender treatment kids on one campus), Corsicana (where all tehe seriously mentally ill youth go) and Brownwood Unit I (across the street from Unit II which is all girls). <BR/><BR/>I doubt this will have a positive outcome. My gut feeling is that it will result in the girls not recieving the same range of services that will be available to the boys. There's no way a single all-girls facility can staff to serve the needs of girls with the various specialized treatment needs, and have a stabilization unit for girls with serious mental illnesses. If the services offered to the girls are in any way less than what the boys get...then we deserve to get our assess sued off and lose. <BR/><BR/>I'm not saying they should mix the genders for everything. But there's nothing in history or society to make me believe seperate won't end up being unequal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-5975194709027175782007-05-24T11:43:00.000-05:002007-05-24T11:43:00.000-05:00Grits, I tend to agree with your assessment of gen...Grits, I tend to agree with your assessment of gender segregation at TYC.<BR/><BR/>Juvenile correctional facilities historically had been sex segregated for much of the 20th century, until the Morales case.<BR/><BR/>In the 70s, it was determined that co-educational facilities would create a more "normal" social environment for the kids, and cut down on deviant behaviors (and the guards' propensity back then to label kids "homosexual" for let's just say questionable reasons).<BR/><BR/>I reread this Statesman article twice and couldn't find a clear reason given for gender segregation, other than protecting girls from juvenile male sex offenders. Why can't that be done without segregating the entire population?<BR/><BR/>Although I haven't read the confidential report cited in the article, it seems that they are proceeding on an assumption that this move will benefit girls. Maybe and maybe not. Let's see some empirical evidence.<BR/><BR/>I wonder what TYC staff think about this. Does it make your work easier, or does it create new problems?<BR/>Bill Bush, UNLVAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com