Assaulting abusive guards results in nine additional years

In 2011, guards broke the child's arm and denied medical care, a massive investigation resulted in, "The child accepting full responsibility" for the actions of three guards. Keep in mind this child is very short in stature. Most guards are built like refrigerators.

When he had enough abuse, he turned the violence back on the guards and as a minor, he was sentenced to nine years for assaulting a guard at the Corsicana Texas Youth Commission's facility. 

With all the violence going on in Corsicana, every single Corsicana Youth entered the Texas Prison System at the age of majority. We must find a way to stop prison guards from beating him, breaking his bones, denying medical care, and charging the minor child with crimes against guards, who continued to beat him. When he became an adult, the Texas Youth Commission shifted responsibility to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. How many children leave foster care via the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Department of Corrections?

In 2011, Corsicana Texas Youth program was in extreme distress; guards having sex with clients, abuse of power, and increased violence. According to the Texas Tribune:

The campus, they wrote, “continues to pose a risk to the vulnerable youth population it serves as hazardous debris and glass are continually unearthed after rain or strong winds.” The roughly 90 youths at the facility, most of whom had been diagnosed with severe mental illnesses and who had committed replacement.

When Corsicana was finally emptied by the Texas Legislature in December 2013, many in the world of juvenile justice reform already viewed the facility as dangerous and unsalvageable. A federal Bureau of Justice Statistics report found that in 2008, 23 percent of Corsicana inmates reported having had sexual relations with staff. Violence was up as well; in 2012, the facility was responsible for 32 percent of all violent incidents in the juvenile justice agency, despite housing only 10 percent of the agency’s youths.

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