Today, Gov. Rick Perry signed SB 103, the bill to reform the Texas Youth Commission. Marc Levin, Director of the Center for Effective Justice, testified before the Legislature on TYC this session and authored a Houston Chronicle commentary laying out many of the reforms enacted in SB 103. SB 103 provides independent oversight to prevent future abuses, creates review panels to ensure that rehabilitated youth are promptly released from TYC, allows for greater parental involvement, and specifies that misdemeanant offenders, such as youths convicted of graffiti and alcohol possession, will no longer be sent to TYC. These youths will instead be punished and rehabilitated through community-based residential and day treatment programs that are more effective, less expensive, and help preserve the family unit.”We are pleased that the Legislature and Governor Perry have taken decisive action to reform a wayward agency that, in many instances, worsened, rather than improved, the state of the youth in its custody,” Levin said.
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Veritas August 2018
This issue of Veritas, the quarterly publication of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, features the Foundation's efforts to inform the public of the human cost of subsidizing wind energy, abolishing the "Robin Hood" school property tax, combating our growing civic illiteracy, and our part in the ACA lawsuit.
September 7, 2018