Tarrant County leads the state in the number of youth it sends to Texas juvenile prisons, which doesn’t have enough space to accommodate the influx, causing overcrowding at the county’s detention center.
But solutions to the problem are debated among Tarrant County officials and juvenile justice advocates.
The Texas Juvenile Justice Department, in a September board meeting presentation, showed that Tarrant County commits more youth to its facilities than any other county in the state. According to a records from TJJD, Tarrant County nearly doubled the number of youth committed in the 2025 fiscal year from 63 to 103…