Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ must reduce incarceration levels to cut a qua...

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ must reduce incarceration levels to cut a qua...: Texas state legislative leadership this week told state agencies to submit a baseline budget four percent lower than the last biennium, wi...

Grits for Breakfast: On the need to measure (and limit) prosecutor disc...

Grits for Breakfast: On the need to measure (and limit) prosecutor disc...: Grits has been thinking quite a bit about Prof. John Pfaff's observations that we don't have a lot of data about prosecutors' f...

Grits for Breakfast: Ideas for diverting people with mental illness fro...

Grits for Breakfast: Ideas for diverting people with mental illness fro...: With the 85th Texas legislative session fast approaching, the House Select Committee on Mental Health continues to discuss the challenges of...