Grits for Breakfast: "Isolated incident" at TDCJ means things that happ...

Grits for Breakfast: "Isolated incident" at TDCJ means things that happ...: Not long ago, Grits parsed statements from Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman and concluded that his consistent pattern of resp...

Grits for Breakfast: #MeToo among Texas women prison guards

Grits for Breakfast: #MeToo among Texas women prison guards: Go read Keri Blakinger's new Houston Chronicle story on the topic . Keri writes that, "female officers also have to contend with ha...

Grits for Breakfast: Now in a dwindling minority, failure to "Raise the...

Grits for Breakfast: Now in a dwindling minority, failure to "Raise the...: The Missouri Legislature recently voted to raise the age of adult criminal responsibility from 17 to 18 years old, beginning January 1, 202...

Grits for Breakfast: Zero tolerance makes zero sense, and other stories...

Grits for Breakfast: Zero tolerance makes zero sense, and other stories...: Here are a few odds and ends that merit readers' attention: Learning the ropes Politico ran a nice feature on Nueces County DA Mark G...

Grits for Breakfast: Meditating on misdemeanors, the human toll of pris...

Grits for Breakfast: Meditating on misdemeanors, the human toll of pris...: Here are a few odds and ends that will simultaneously clear my browser tabs and point readers to a few interesting items about which I don&#...

Grits for Breakfast: Reasonably Suspicious: The conservative case for r...

Grits for Breakfast: Reasonably Suspicious: The conservative case for r...: Does God have a Texas accent? Mandy Marzullo and I address this and other pressing questions on the latest edition (May 2018) of Just Libert...

Grits for Breakfast: On recidivism, abolitionism, diversion, zoning, an...

Grits for Breakfast: On recidivism, abolitionism, diversion, zoning, an...: Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere: Pam Colloff kicks ass Pam Colloff&#...

Grits for Breakfast: Lies, damn lies, and claims by counties about unfu...

Grits for Breakfast: Lies, damn lies, and claims by counties about unfu...: Officials in Tom Green County are telling the press and the public that the state owes counties some $2.6 billion for indigent defense costs...

Grits for Breakfast: Remembering Texas' now-defunct drug-task-force sys...

Grits for Breakfast: Remembering Texas' now-defunct drug-task-force sys...: On Twitter, a reader came up with a blast from the past, asking whatever happened to Texas' multi-jurisdictional drug task forces, whic...

Grits for Breakfast: Appointed counsel in Austin radically increases ch...

Grits for Breakfast: Appointed counsel in Austin radically increases ch...: Defendants in Travis County were far more likely to be convicted of state-jail felony drug charges if they were indigent with an appointed a...

Grits for Breakfast: Don't make excuses for bad choices by Harris Count...

Grits for Breakfast: Don't make excuses for bad choices by Harris Count...: The truth about Harris County judges misleading the courts and intentionally violating the constitutional rights of defendants before them ...

Grits for Breakfast: TJJD Ombudsman Firing: Shooting the Messenger

Grits for Breakfast: TJJD Ombudsman Firing: Shooting the Messenger: When one reads the press accounts which broke the recent scandals at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department or talk to the reporters who cove...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas should replicate OK approach on drug felonie...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas should replicate OK approach on drug felonie...: Your correspondent has maintained for years that, after Jim Thorpe left, the best thing ever to come out of Oklahoma was I-35. Grits has lon...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas getting better at identifying problems at ju...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas getting better at identifying problems at ju...: In reaction to revelations of dysfunctional youth prisons, advocates  including your correspondent  have been calling to  dismantle them and...