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Texas Department of Human Services

  • News

    October 11, 2001

    Deadbeating the System

    Eight years ago, Kim Sullivan turned to the state for help collecting overdue child support. She's still waiting.

  • News

    October 4, 2001

    Home Unsweet Home

    When a Garland nursing center started to slip, a group of concerned sons and daughters decided to do something about it. The management had other ideas.

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    Silent Scream

    Mute and immobile, Alice Joy Taylor couldn't cry out when fire ants attacked her in her nursing-home bed, but would anyone have heard her if she did?

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    Cruel and Unusual

    Mentally ill Texans used to go to hospitals. Now, increasing numbers of them go to prison instead.

  • News

    June 26, 1997

    What makes Sammy run?

    Huge and helpless, schizophrenic and hypertensive, Sammy Allen has fallen between the administrative cracks of a local mental health system that can't seem to get its ACT together

  • News

    January 19, 1995

    Accidental angel

    A single Dallas businesswoman stumbles into parenthood

  • News

    November 17, 1994

    'Tell Mama Why You Cry' (Part I)

    Sam Krasniqi was acquitted of sexual abuse. So why won't the state let two children have their parents -or their religion?

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