Subject: Texas Youth Commission

• Houstonians Needed To Harass Judge

  The Houston Press's backpage.com classifieds section sometimes gets some odd submissions, and we were recently alerted to one. Sent by an anonymous source using the addy police_evidence123@yahoo.com, the post offered "thousands of part-time and full-time openings" for a vague company called "Santa's Little Helpers." Or at least, that's the name that interested parties were supposed to put on a $5 check or money order and send to Lamar County Juvenile Judge M.C. Superville (who is not, as hi

  December 15, 2008

• A Bad Place to Die

  May 5, 1994

• The New KKK

  ...is not quite what you'd expect

  December 28, 2006

• Parts Unknown

  Did Donnie Riley kill Tarron Dixon, or was he shooting at someone else in a different Houston neighborhood that night 13 years ago?

  October 14, 2004

• Attention Deficit

  Kristen Turner was supposed to have a better, safer life while in CPS custody, so how did the 14-year-old end up in the hospital?

  October 16, 2003

• Gangstas in Paradise

  Galveston has beautiful beaches, the Strand and Moody Gardens. North of Broadway it has the projects, crippling poverty and big-city problems. And now the bad guys are back.

  December 6, 2001

• Sick Kids

  For many mentally ill teenagers in Texas, the only way to get treatment is to get arrested.

  November 8, 2001

• Letters

  February 2, 1995

• For Their Own Good: A Chance at Rehabilitation

  May 28, 2009

• Guy Says He Has Scientific Proof Too Many People Get Sent To Jail

  Photo by the_kid_clConsidering the recent problems facing the Harris County jail, overcrowding and the high cost of keeping inmates locked up in this nose-dive economy, corrections expert Sean Hosman thinks he has a way to help: science.Hosman, CEO of Assessments.com, was in Houston this week talking at the Texas Corrections Association conference about a program he's developed that uses a scientific method of assessing and classifying offenders before they enter a jail or prison that he says sa

  June 11, 2009

• Gubernatorial Candidate Kinky Friedman: My Dog Could Run This State As Well As Rick Perry

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ "Going from musician to politician is definitely a step down," says Kinky Friedman, who announced his Texas gubernatorial candidacy Tuesday morning. "But I'll take it for Texas." Of course, it's a step that Friedman, author of songs such as "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Any More" and "The Ballad of Charles Whitman," as well as numerous mystery novels, took once before in 2006, when he took about 13 percent of the popular vote as an independent. Running as a Democr

  September 2, 2009

• Gubernatorial Candidate Kinky Friedman: My Dog Could Run This State As Well As Rick Perry

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ "Going from musician to politician is definitely a step down," says Kinky Friedman, who announced his Texas gubernatorial candidacy Tuesday morning. "But I'll take it for Texas." Of course, it's a step that Friedman, author of songs such as "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Any More" and "The Ballad of Charles Whitman," as well as numerous mystery novels, took once before in 2006, when he took about 13 percent of the popular vote as an independent. Running as a Democr

  September 2, 2009