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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - On-the-job injury claims are soaring among juvenile prison guards with the troubled Texas Youth Commission, which is embroiled in scandal amid inmate claims of sexual and physical abuse.
According to state records, youth-commission employees file more work-related injury claims than any other state agency, including four times the rate of Department of Criminal Justice employees, who guard adult prisoners.
Reports of physical confrontations between guards and young inmates have jumped by a third since 2003. In 2006, correctional officers at the youth commission's 13 facilities forcibly restrained inmates an average of 35 times a day, according to the records obtained by the Austin American-Statesman.
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