The Texas Juvenile Justice Department doesn't have enough staff to keep minors safe or deal with increasing suicidal behavior, its interim head says. 📝: TexasTribune
from the interim executive director, Shandra Carter, to juvenile probation county leaders revealed how a staffing crisis has forced the agency to stop accepting new youth inmates. Across the state, the agency said 140 inmates are waiting to transfer.
"The goal of the juvenile is to rehabilitate kids and we shouldn't throw away the key and assume that just because they exhibited some law-breaking behavior or done something that is bad that we should give up on them, and that's what I fear is happening right now," Merfish explained. The agency believes increased by will attract new talent, and reduce turnover. More staff will not only allow them to accept inmates again, but work to rehabilitate youth. Merfish said she'd lobbied lawmakers to close state facilities and move juveniles closer to home at county facilities.
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