Blind spots: Scandals at Texas agency facilities brought reforms, but state hospitals didn't follow lead

Blind spots: Scandals at Texas agency facilities brought reforms, but state hospitals didn't follow lead:

In 2007, stunned by revelations of ongoing sexual abuse of young state wards by the adults charged with caring for them, legislators passed a series of laws that reformed how the Texas Youth Commission kept its teenage offenders safe. The changes included simple adjustments considered best practices in lockups for years: increased use of security cameras to capture and record incidents, independent monitors to field complaints and a separate investigative team to pursue allegations of abuse.