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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1974
ommunity centers may help reduce crime rate
HOUSTON (AP) — State Sen.
het Brooks said Monday, replao
g reform schools with community
nters will help reduce crime and
prove the rehabilitation of
veniles.
The chairman of the Texas
House-Senate Committee on
Prison Reform made his remarks
while commending an order by U.
S. District Court Judge William
Wayne Justice of Tyler that Texas
dismantle its larger reform schools.
Brooks said that under current
operation’s of the Texas Youth
Council that most juveniles never
get to the reform schools until it is
too late for rehabilitation.
He said that under the commun
ity center system called for by
Justice’s order, first offenders in
some states are treated like outpa
tients at a hospital.
In such cases, Brooks said, the
juveniles live at home while taking
part in rehabilitative programs and
receiving counseling, tests, and
guidance.
Brooks said he was expressing
only his views but that he believes
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the first four community centers
should be near the state’s four
largest metropolitan areas with
others to be added later to facilitate
other areas. He said the legislature
would have to solve the financing
problem.
Brooks said Justice’s ruling points
more to the kind of facility than to
the number of juveniles housed at
each facility. The central issue be
hind the idea of breaking up the
reform schools, he added, is the
program of rehabilitation, not the
number of juveniles at any one
place.
The Pasadena Democrat said Dr.
George Beto, former director of the
Texas Department of Corrections,
once testified that 43 per cent of the
adults held by the prison system
could be rehabilitated more effec
tively at community centers than at
the department’s 14 units.
Brooks said there still will be a
need for some sort of a facility for
incorrigible juveniles in that such
offenders should not be permitted
to associate with youngsters with
records of only one or a few mis
takes.
The senator said the community
center concept also lends itself to
community involvement in juvenile
rehabilitation.
He said involvement by public
schools, private physicians, and
representatives of social agencies
would be more practicable at the
community level.
Two Harris County juvenile
judges also commended Justice’s
ruling.
“Nobody’s surprised, it’s been
coming a while,” said Judge W. H.
Miller. “Least of all surprised
should be the Texas Youth Council.
However, there will always be a
need for some sort of maximum sec
urity facility for the real problem
Judge Briss Cole, a former state
senator, said he agrees 100 per cent
with Justice.
“I think Gatesville and Moun-
tainview should be closed,” Cole
said. “There shouldn’t be any prob
lems relocating the kids, especially
from Mountainview, where I think
they only have 45 or 50 youngsters
there now.
“There have been a lot of prob
lems at Gatesville,” he said. “The
state will need to do a lot of planning
for new programs in the next few
years.”
Cole said money now being spent
on the reform schools should go a
long way toward funding more local
programs but added there may well
be a need for additional funds.
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