When state officials elected last month not to renew a contract with San Antonio Boys Village, directors at the facility for teenage boys with legal problems were left scrambling to find a way to stay open. ...more

October 25, 2009

The state officially stopped Tampa Bay Academy on Friday from providing long-term mental health care to the most troubled children, but the academy's problems aren't unique to its corporate parent in Texas. ...more

January 10, 2009

The official rebuke to the troubled Tampa Bay Academy comes at 5 p.m. today – the time when state regulators said they will suspend the academy's license for what they called "gross mismanagement" of mental health care. Barring a last-minute decision – the academy's executives have appealed to regulators with an improvement plan – the for-profit mental health center in Riverview will no longer be able to provide long-term residential care to children and teenagers who suffer from severe mental illness. ...more

January 9, 2009

Shane Rupple thinks the justice system has failed his daughter. Just five months ago, 16-year-old Victoria Rupple pleaded guilty to trying to drown her younger brother in the bathtub during a game of "cops and robbers." She was sentenced to a minimum of nine months in a residential treatment program and five years of probation. ...more

January 16, 2008