Nearly 15,000 non-violent and misdemeanor juvenile cases have been diverted from the...
Youths walk by the windows of the dining hall on their way to lunch Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006, at the Giddings State School in Giddings, Texas. Giddings State School is a juvenile detention facility east of Austin serving time with the Texas Youth Commission for a variety of crimes including aggravated assault, sexual assault, car theft to capital murder.
“In 2017, at the start of this administration, our juvenile detention facilities were full,” Ogg said during a presentation Friday. “One of my goals as the district attorney…was to stop the school to prison pipeline where we could.”Some predominantly Black, high-needs HISD schools discipline nearly half of students, data shows
“We realized we were charging kids too much,” he said. “The system was broken. Seventy percent of all cases that were arrested and went through the court were misdemeanors and 30 percent were felonies. Our priorities were off.”
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