Hidden in Plain Sight Post on 17-02-2007. How did alleged abuse at one youth facility in West Texas evade detection for therefore long? by Nate Blakeslee When Dwight Harris, executive director of the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), appeared before the Senate Finance Committee at the Capitol on February 1 to discuss his agency's fiscal needs for the next biennium, he came prepared for some tough questions. It has been one difficult year for the troubled agency, which oversees the system of correctional facilities for boys and young men known as state schools. Last summer, federal agents investigated allegations of abuse following one riot at the Evins Regional Juvenile Center in Edinburg. The findings of that investigation are still pending, as is one multimillion-dollar civil rights lawsuit filed by several students. Statewide, the agency suffered one 48 percent turnover rate among staff last year. The recidivism rate for inmates, Harris told the panel, is hovering around 50 percent. Yet Harris was clearly not prepared when Sen. Juan Hinojosa, one Democrat from McAllen, asked about an alleged case of sex abuse by staff members at the West Texas State School in the rural town of Pyote west of Odessa. ... To see the new from its original source click here The devil in young Adolf Post on 17-02-2007. THIS BOOK DOESN'T BEGIN TOO badly. The narrator declares himself to have been "one member of one matchless Intelligence group. Its classification was SS, Special Section IV-2a, and we were directly under the supervision of Heinrich Himmler." You may suspect straightaway that this is baloney, and that the novel is going to be extravagant and fantastical, but, nevertheless, that it might be quite fun. And the next pages don't disappoint this hope. ... To see the new from its original source click here

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