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TYC deprioritized abuse allegations while media frenzy raged

The Texas Youth Commission Ombudsman's first ever report to the state's political leadership (pdf) of ?particularly serious or flagrant? problems at the agency alleged that TYC had closed files on hundreds of allegations of staff-on-youth abuse without proper investigation. I've finally had a chance to look through the relevant documents, so here's my take what we've learned from this new report, at least in broad strokes:The story begins in June 2007, when Governor Perry's "fixer" Jay Kimbrough left the TYC conservator's post for a cushier job at Texas A&M, and former TDCJ #2 man Ed Owens took over in his stead. At the time, I marveled that Governor Perry "appointed a man to run the agency for whom the state [in 2006] paid to settle allegations in a civil suit that he (and others) ignored sexual harassment complaints from subordinates at his old employer, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).