tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post4776789113330155273..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ Youthful Offender Program accused of 'culture of cover-up'Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-58081297320179247802018-03-19T13:32:29.063-05:002018-03-19T13:32:29.063-05:00Grits, at this point I am not sure what can be sai...Grits, at this point I am not sure what can be said that has not already been said, over and over, for the last 100 years. It's kind of astounding to me to read the comments of Abbott and his appointees.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06589571577949600365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-57779394024832721832018-03-14T21:35:05.110-05:002018-03-14T21:35:05.110-05:009:41 Here the meme is always "Lo! The Poor I...9:41 Here the meme is always "Lo! The Poor Innocents."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-47224426314941086912018-03-14T21:29:39.871-05:002018-03-14T21:29:39.871-05:00Let's not mention that it was female staff tha...Let's not mention that it was female staff that offered sexual services to the young male inmates--the sexual abuse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-40847203339006138592018-03-13T10:18:51.109-05:002018-03-13T10:18:51.109-05:00It's not that there's "little reporti...It's not that there's "little reporting" of assaults on and abusive behavior toward staff, 9:41, at either TJJD or TDCJ. The Legislature has been told many times and this blog has certainly <a href="https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2017/11/looking-through-glass-door-at-tjjd.html" rel="nofollow">acknowledged it</a>. However, what you're describing are functions of chronic understaffing combined with inappropriately designed and located facilities. Staff are less safe because of those things but SO ARE YOUTH.<br /><br />From my vantage point, staff who want safer youth prisons have an unusual confluence of interests with reformers (similar to how the CO union at TDCJ joined inmates' heat litigation). Defending the status quo either at TJJD or the TDCJ Youthful Offender Program isn't really a credible stance at this point. The arguments for smaller, better staffed facilities near urban areas makes things safer for staff just as much as for the kids.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-35021143695519488662018-03-13T09:41:16.425-05:002018-03-13T09:41:16.425-05:00Apparently the bleeding heart "these poor chi...Apparently the bleeding heart "these poor children" advocates have never worked more than an hour or two at a time with these often vicious felons. These are criminals in every sense of the word. They are engendered from criminal families-to help solve this problem, they need to be removed from the families from which they learned their behavior-not placed closer to them, not, reunified. Get some real world sense. The kids sent to TDCJ needed to go there. There is little reporting of the abuse that employees of TJJD get daily from youth-being spit on, having feces & urine thrown on them, hit kicked, slapped & nothing is done, until these "children" go to TDCJ... and not enough of them do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com