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youth prisons

Crime & Justice

Bill would close youth prisons in Texas

Paul Flahive

Austin Democrat James Talarico has filed the HB 4356, which would shutter the state's five secure youth detention centers and move TJJD's assets under the Health and Human Services Commission.