Kudos to the teen activists trying to shut down the state's last youth prisons. Kudos to their determination not to let up. Hope they've got a Plan B in mind, not just for full closure but something even close. It's unlikely that, with Texas the prison state re-open for biz after COVID that they'll get much action from the Lege this year.
Related? Another youth foster shelter has shut down amidst another sex abuse scandal, even as the Department of Family Protective Services continues to semi-suck overall. Expect another Band-Aid pretend fix, if anything, from the Lege.
That's all playing out while Kenny Boy Paxton and his wingnut Lege minions want to continue persecuting parents of transgender and transsexual (I distinguish!) kids, now attacking TASB. The TASB guidelines for school districts to deal with such students in light of federal Title IX is not controversial. Will Border-Wall-Monger Joe Biden's administration weigh in? Odds are less than 50-50.
A number of Texas prison inmates remained on hunger strikes protesting against solitary confinement conditions.
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