Houston Chronicle, March 15, 2007 AUSTIN - Under pressure from the Legislature, Gov. Rick Perry announced Wednesday that the Texas Youth Commission board will resign amid new criminal allegations involving TYC staff and revelations that the juvenile corrections health care system is in shambles. Meanwhile, University of Texas Medical Branch Vice President Dr. Ben Raimer told a joint legislative committee that there are so many problems in the TYC system that UTMB has been trying to get out of its contract. Raimer said the nursing staff that works at TYC units has an annual turnover rate of 32 percent. "When you have student riots everywhere, the staff does not feel safe," Raimer said. "They're only going to take threats and insults and feces thrown at them for so long before they walk out and leave." Raimer admitted the UTMB system has made mistakes in two instances where Special Master Jay Kimbrough found that a youth at the Corsicana Residential Treatment Center had his psychotropic medicine run out and in the delay of getting an X-ray for a girl with an injured foot. But Raimer said UTMB staff distribute 11,000 pills a month at the Corsicana unit - a 198-bed TYC facility that houses youth with mental health problems.