New Inspector General for TYC
A Texas Department of Criminal Justice captain became the new inspector general of the embattled Texas Youth Commission on Monday.
Bruce Toney, a 12-year veteran of the adult corrections agency's inspector general office and a member of the team investigating allegations of sexual and physical abuse at the TYC, starts immediately, said Jim Hurley, spokesman for the youth commission.
Toney replaces Ray Worsham, the inspector general who was suspended during an investigation into redacted documents at the agency. Mr. Worsham later resigned.
Mr. Toney, who has been living in Huntsville, was an Abilene police officer before working for the TDCJ. TYC Executive Director Ed Owens made the hire, Mr. Hurley said.
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Why is there an assumption that all the TDCJ bureaucrats can run TYC? It's not like TDCJ is managed particularly well. Texas prisons lead the nation in reports of sexual abuse of inmates, e.g., poor healthcare for both is run by UTMB, and both agencies are dangerously understaffed and mired in essentially similar problems. I wish they'd bring in some new blood. If it were the focus of a similar media frenzy, we'd discover the same concerns in the adult system as have been discovered at TYC, but on a much larger scale.
Posted by: Gritsforbreakfast | April 10, 2007 7:35 AM