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Almost 600 Texas youth are trapped in a juvenile prison system on the brink of collapse

Published: Aug. 2, 2022, 10 a.m.

b'The agency is so understaffed that teens have reported spending up to 23 hours locked in their cells, using water bottles to go to the bathroom. A staggering number have hurt themselves or been placed on suicide watch.'