Sunday, October 23, 2011

Texas Prisons Cut Lunch to Save Money

Texas Prisons Cut Lunch to Save Money: Texas prisons are scaling back meals on weekends to cut costs – a move that could leave inmate blood sugar levels low and tempers high. Thirty-six prisons are cutting lunches on Saturdays and Sundays, forcing some 23,000 inmates to cram three-meals-worth of calories into an...

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Grits for Breakfast: Rick Perry has little role in 'ultimate justice'

Grits for Breakfast: Rick Perry has little role in 'ultimate justice': John Burnett at NPR has a piece up on Governor Rick Perry and the death penalty titled " In Texas, Perry has little say in 'ultimate justice...