Loophole allows release of young offenders
"Without some requirement for supervision, it doesn't seem like a sound policy to me," said Gail Wasserman, a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University and the director of its Center for the Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice. The Texas Youth Commission disch...
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| Published in | The Charleston gazette (Charleston, W. Va. : 1907) |
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Charleston, W.V
Charleston Newspapers
21.12.2009
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| Summary: | "Without some requirement for supervision, it doesn't seem like a sound policy to me," said Gail Wasserman, a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University and the director of its Center for the Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice. The Texas Youth Commission discharged the boy accused of killing [Todd Henry] in July because he had been diagnosed with multiple mental health issues, including schizophrenia, according to his attorney, Jim Huggler. The teen, whom the AP is not identifying because he is a juvenile and has not been charged as an adult, had been committed in 2007 for aggravated assault. Huggler said he had seen nothing to indicate the boy's family, which had relocated to Tyler from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, had received a plan from state or local officials on how to deal with his mental problems. |
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