Juvenile Corrections in the News

TYC asks for hefty hike to half-billion-dollar budget 

AUSTIN Leaders of the embattled Texas Youth Commission are asking the Legislature for a 32 percent increase in their allowance to $667 million so they can hire more correctional officers and give detainees more privacy. more...

The expansion of the 48-bed John R. Roach Juvenile Detention Center is complete and should be ready to use by Thursday. The $4.2 million expansion was approved by voters as part of a 2003 bond election. more...

AUSTIN Leaders of the embattled Texas Youth Commission are asking the Legislature for a 32 percent increase in their allowance to $667 million so they can hire more correctional officers and give detainees more privacy. more...

John M. Parker adored his wife, Judy, and lavished money and attention on her two children, whom he raised as his own, said John Parker's mother, Marlene Parker. more...

The expansion of the 48-bed John R. Roach Juvenile Detention Center is complete and should be ready to use by Thursday. The $4.2 million expansion was approved by voters as part of a 2003 bond election. more...

New sport could change croquet's elitist image 

Dowdy, wimpy, elitist -- that's the stereotype of croquet, Bob Alman concedes. A former manager at the National Croquet Center in West Palm Beach, he knows his sport has an image problem. read more...

A schoolyard argument at Sierra Vista Junior High School escalated into a stabbing that sent one boy to the hospital Friday afternoon, officials said. read more...

A teenager is facing criminal charges this morning after leading police on a high-speed chase through the Valley this weekend. Police say it all started near El Paseo in Palm Desert around 4:30 Saturday afternoon, after witnesses saw the teenager hit another car and run. read more...

Sacramento County prosecutors are continuing to investigate a claim by an 11-year-old girl who said she was sexually assaulted over the weekend by a teenager and a younger boy. More Local News read more...