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Former Texas Youth Commission Official Gets Ten Years in Prison

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2011 published in Prison Legal News January, 2011, page 44
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Juvenile Prisons. Location: Texas.
On April 22, 2010, a former Texas Youth Commission (TYC) official convicted of sexually abusing a young offender was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Ray Edwards Brookins, formerly the assistant superintendent of TYC’s West Texas State School, was convicted of the 2004 sexual abuse of a prisoner who was ...

 

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