Gatesville State School for Boys

This is a blog about the Gatesville State School for Boys. A facility operated by the Texas Youth Counsel aka the Texas Youth Commission aka the Texas Juvenile Justice Department during the years 1889 to 1979.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

The Vampire Room

This article was submitted by a man who was a permanent clothes room boy at the Reception Center in 1966. One of many duties that w...

Monday, February 16, 2015

Fried Chicken

Most of what can be said about Gatesville is a horror story unless you’re representing the town’s folks defending their little cash co...

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Gatesville Cemetery Cleanup

I was sent this email by a Mom whose daughter is locked up at our old alma-mater and because of the nature of the email I thought I woul...

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Lock Up

Texas Youth Commission Gatesville State School for Boys circa 1974-1977 Crises Intervention Center (CIC) aka Lock Up During a time...

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The following article by William T. Field is from The Handbook of Texas, Volume 3, Eldon Stephen Branda, editor, The Texas Historical As...

Monday, March 19, 2012

Some things never change at TYC/TJJD except the name

A survey of kids posted at the Grits for Breakfast blog said85% of youth housed at the Giddings State School have been in a fight since t...

Friday, February 10, 2012

My Personal Gatesville State School for Boys Ghost Story

In October of 1976 I found myself back at Terrace dorm 4 contemplating how I would get back to the free world faster than what my caseworker...

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About Me

Sheldon tyc#47333: Being teenagers we don’t always make the right choices. Most teenagers do things and some get caught. I got caught but didn’t like staying caught. I was sent to gatesville in 1975 because I had escaped from every other facility I was sent to. There was no escape from that hell hole even though I tried, many times. I spent the best years of high school in that horrible place, mostly in lockup. After finely leaving I could begin to get the help I needed and with the support of family and friends I have been able to get and keep my life on the right track. This blog is to tell our stories, stories that as state boys we were afraid to tell, that b horror movie, in the hopes that people can learn that some people can be real cruel to children even in a so called civilized society. Perhaps some good may come from it, even just getting it off our chest.

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