U.S. District Judge Janis Jack has taken the Texas’ foster care system to task for 13 years.
On a chilly morning last January, U.S. District Judge Janis Jack was visibly on edge in her Corpus Christi courtroom. She leaned in and cast a hard look at Cecile E. Young , the Texas Health and Human Services executive commissioner appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott during the pandemic. “Commissioner Young ,” Jack said.
agency officials declined through a spokesperson to comment, saying they were limited by the pending litigation. Years of struggling under Jack’s critical eye Jack first ruled in 2015 that Texas had violated the constitutional rights of foster children to be free from an unreasonable risk of harm, saying that children “often age out of care more damaged than when they entered.” Jack has since issued several orders aiming at widespread reform.
data. At one point during a hearing on those children, Jack suggested that she serve the same treatment to a state’s attorney, as well as Muth and Young, that their caseworkers were giving to the children without placements. “I should sentence and Ms. Muth and Ms. Young to one of these ... cheap motels, where they can live off of McDonald’s,” she told them during a recent hearing. “Or they might be subject to the tasering or the handcuffs.
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