Roughly a year ago, the U.S Justice Department field a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs – a massive Austin-based nonprofit founded in 1987 which operates across Texas, Georgia, Florida and New ...

The number of instances of use of force in the state's youth lockups doubled from about 3,500 in 2022 to 7,000 just two years later, according to information Texas Appleseed received from juvenile ...

Join Lisa Falkenberg, State Rep. Gene Wu and State Rep. Ann Johnson as they unpack the redistricting showdown with Gov.

The House Culture, Recreation & Tourism Committee heard testimony from a variety of stakeholders about emergency preparedness and the response to floods.

AUSTIN — A juvenile corrections officer was arrested Wednesday on a charge of having sex with a female teenager in his custody at a Fort Worth halfway house, Texas Youth Commission officials ...

AUSTIN - A former West Texas juvenile jail official charged in a sex-abuse case has been freed on bond, the Travis County Sheriff's Office said Friday.

Rumbo began work Monday as the principal of the Crockett State School, a general population facility in Houston County that serves 230 youth offenders, said Jim Hurley, a TYC spokesman.

A 2024 study of anti-semitism in Texas from the Texas Holocaust, Genocide and Antisemitism Advisory commission found that incidents of hatred toward Jewish people nearly doubled between 2022 and 2023.