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Crockett State School

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371: 303: 841:(BOP) receives juveniles from Native American territories where federal law is enforced. They are held in facilities separate from those of adults. Unlike adults sentenced in District of Columbia courts, juveniles sentenced in DC juvenile courts are sent to facilities operated by DC itself, while adults and those sentenced as adults are sent to BOP facilities. 92:. The juvenile facility closed in 1972. The facility, renamed to the Crockett State Home on December 13, 1973, was then used as a house and educational center for dependent and neglected children. In 1975 the youth home operations stopped, and the Crockett State School re-opened as a juvenile correctional facility for boys. In 1979 the 56:(TFCWC) began to petition the state of Texas to create a "state-sponsored home for delinquent girls" and the club would donate the land. A member of the club, Carrie Adams, was very vocal in the need to create a training school for "delinquent black girls." In 1920, the land was purchased by TFCWC. In 1927 the 88:. The state moved the girls so the state could cut costs and so the girls could be closer to an African-American population. In 1957 the state school was placed under the control of the Texas Youth Council (now the Texas Youth Commission). The state school was integrated in 1966, and so its name changed to 60:
authorized the establishment youth correctional facility for black girls by the Texas State Board of Control. However, despite the approval, no money was appropriated for the school until 1945. In 1945 the legislature provided funds to build the state school which was first called the Brady State
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77:. In February 1947 the Brady State School for Negro Girls opened; until the opening of Brady, there were no correctional facilities that admitted black girls. In 1949 the State Youth Development Council took control of the Brady facility. 511: 337: 890: 900: 504: 40:, property crimes and crimes against persons. The Crockett State School, located on what was a 125-acre (51 ha) farm, is about 115 miles (185 km) north of 497: 895: 717: 631: 722: 604: 910: 62: 431: 359: 905: 532:
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On Monday March 16, 2009, a 14-year-old boy incarcerated in Crockett hanged himself with his underwear in his room.
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School for Negro Girls. In August 1946 the State Board of Control entered into a lease agreement with the
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On June 3, 2011, the TYC announced that the facility would close by August 31, 2011, due to budget cuts.
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In 1950 the State of Texas moved the black girls' state school to a former farm in
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Correctional facilities for delinquent children in the United States
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Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility (Whittier State School)
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closed, and Crockett took some students previously at Gatesville.
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Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female-only)
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McLennan County State Juvenile Correctional Facility
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Texas Youth Commission
Crockett
Texas
truancy
Houston
Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
Texas Legislature
Federal Government of the United States
prisoner of war
McCulloch County
Brady
Houston County
Gatesville State School
Crockett State School
Archived
Wayback Machine
Texas Youth Commission




Crockett State School
Handbook of Texas Online


14-year-old hangs himself at Crockett youth lockup
Houston Chronicle


"Historical Background"

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