Tarrant County Commissioners approved two contracts with Collin County that allow local juveniles to be held in out-of-county detention facilities when space runs short in Tarrant County’s own system.
The first contract covers pre-adjudication detention, for youths awaiting court proceedings, while the second covers post-adjudication services, which provide longer-term residential and rehabilitative programs for youth already found delinquent by a judge.
County officials say the agreements are intended as “backstop” to address crowding at the Lynn W. Ross Juvenile Detention Center, not a shift in detention policy…