One teen's time at Texas Juvenile Justice Department was meant to help her get better. That is, after all, what the state of Texas promises. But D’s mental deterioration and the “degrading” treatment her mother said she has received has been devastating.
Since the pandemic, staffing issues at the system’s rural locations have gone from serious to being described as “catastrophic” by the agency’s own leader, interim TJJD Director Shandra Carter. This has led to a breakdown of the department’s ability to safely maintain programs meant to help rehabilitate and stabilize young prisoners.
“Since TJJD’s creation, the agency has been caught in a seemingly endless cycle of crises and instability, even after legislative initiatives cut in half the number of youth it must directly supervise and facilities it must operate,” read a May report by the state Sunset Commission, charged with reviewing whether agencies should continue to exist.
The governor’s spokesperson pushed back hard on the idea that immigration crackdowns had directly dented the budget for juvenile detention. “It did not impact the agency’s operational budget in any way and is not related to any operational decisions made by TJJD,” said Eze, who added, “Many private and public employers like TJJD are currently having a difficult time finding employees.”
Even in a mass incarceration hot spot like the United States, where stories of death and suffering behind bars are rife, experts say the situation facing troubled Texas kids is uniquely horrifying. But the nightmare in Texas state facilities for kids are just a disturbing piece of a larger national crisis, as the Marshall Project“What’s happening in Texas feels, to me, very extreme, but all too common [a] phenomenon,” said Dr.
But many local and national advocates argue that additional cash won’t necessarily fix TJJD’s issues. “When was the last time you were unable to get out of a room to use a bathroom so you urinated on yourself?” he asked. “That’s incredibly humiliating for a child, and then to put them in a suicide gown on top of that, because you’re understaffed, is compounding that humiliation. She’s a young child who’s been locked up since she was 12, and she’s got mental-health issues. And on top of that, she’s locked in for [up to 23] hours a day in a gown. And has to periodically urinate on herself.
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