Grits for Breakfast: More criminal justice bills pre-filed at the Texas...

Grits for Breakfast: More criminal justice bills pre-filed at the Texas...: Here are a few more bills (see here , here , here and here for earlier installments) from the first week of pre-filing at the Texas Legisl...

Grits for Breakfast: More criminal justice bills pre-filed at the Texas...

Grits for Breakfast: More criminal justice bills pre-filed at the Texas...: Here are a few more bills (see here , here , here and here for earlier installments) from the first week of pre-filing at the Texas Legisl...

Grits for Breakfast: Inmate families rally for criminal justice reform

Grits for Breakfast: Inmate families rally for criminal justice reform: The Texas Inmate Families Association, Texas CURE, and Texas Voices are holding a rally at the state capitol on Friday afternoon . A friend ...

Grits for Breakfast: Exoneree awarded $2.3 million jury verdict over in...

Grits for Breakfast: Exoneree awarded $2.3 million jury verdict over in...: Texas Lawyer brings word (Oct. 23) of the latest example of innocence compensation, this time through a federal courtroom instead of the st...

Grits for Breakfast: 'Economist': Judges must seize back power from pro...

Grits for Breakfast: 'Economist': Judges must seize back power from pro...: The Economist last week (Oct. 4) published a pair of pieces lamenting the super-sizing of prosecutorial power and calling for the state to h...

Grits for Breakfast: Habern: On plea bargains, parole, and the conseque...

Grits for Breakfast: Habern: On plea bargains, parole, and the conseque...: Long-time Texas parole attorney Bill Habern, whose comments on the Pamela Freeman case Grits appended to this post , followed up with an ema...

Grits for Breakfast: Disputed confession corroborated by jailhouse snit...

Grits for Breakfast: Disputed confession corroborated by jailhouse snit...: Grits apparently forgot to post anything about this story when it came out last month, so let's correct the oversight. Two Dallas men,...

Grits for Breakfast: Parole commissioner indictment points to swamped s...

Grits for Breakfast: Parole commissioner indictment points to swamped s...: More detail has emerged regarding the indictment of parole commissioner Pamela Freeman reported by Grits yesterday. A story in the Houston C...

TDCJ Parole Board Commissioner Indicted

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Vindicated Tom Delay considers lawsuit, return to D.C.

Vindicated Tom Delay considers lawsuit, return to D.C.

2Million Plus Citizens-in-Action aka 2mp

2Million Plus Citizens-in-Action aka 2mp

Grits for Breakfast: Well water contaminated with arsenic at TDCJ's Wal...

Grits for Breakfast: Well water contaminated with arsenic at TDCJ's Wal...: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is seeking a contract to purchase water from the city of Navasota because of "slightly higher ...

Grits for Breakfast: Tim Cole statue unveiled in Lubbock, and other sto...

Grits for Breakfast: Tim Cole statue unveiled in Lubbock, and other sto...: Here are a few items from the last week that may interest Grits readers but which lost out in the competition for time with my paid work: ...

Grits for Breakfast: Ugly allegations of abuse, inmate hazing at Bartle...

Grits for Breakfast: Ugly allegations of abuse, inmate hazing at Bartle...: Holy God! I hardly know what to make of this! From the San Antonio Express-News (" Lawsuit: Texas prison okays odd sex assault ," ...

Grits for Breakfast: Corrections Committee Chair Tan Parker questions j...

Grits for Breakfast: Corrections Committee Chair Tan Parker questions j...: Here's an incredibly positive sign for drug sentencing reform from Texas House Corrections Committee Chairman Tan Parker, as reported by...

Grits for Breakfast: Corrections Committee Chair Tan Parker questions j...

Grits for Breakfast: Corrections Committee Chair Tan Parker questions j...: Here's an incredibly positive sign for drug sentencing reform from Texas House Corrections Committee Chairman Tan Parker, as reported by...

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ's $6.8 billion budget request slants too much...

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ's $6.8 billion budget request slants too much...: Here's a one-page summary (pdf) of Texas Department of Criminal Justice's  Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR) for FY 2016-17....

Lawyers: Rape Case Sign Of Texas Court’s Shift « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

Lawyers: Rape Case Sign Of Texas Court’s Shift « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

Grits for Breakfast: Litigation heating up over summertime prison condi...

Grits for Breakfast: Litigation heating up over summertime prison condi...: At Texas Monthly's website, Annie Melton reflects on the looming question: " Will a ruling on extreme conditions at the Louisiana S...

Grits for Breakfast: Crappy indigent defense causes false convictions

Grits for Breakfast: Crappy indigent defense causes false convictions: The San Antonio Current had a fine article recently titled " 254 ways to defend poor people in Texas " critiquing Texas' coun...

Grits for Breakfast: LBB brief: 'Adult parole in Texas'

Grits for Breakfast: LBB brief: 'Adult parole in Texas': The Legislative Budget Board today published a two-page issue brief titled " Adult Parole in Texas " (pdf) - a pretty general over...

Grits for Breakfast: Nuther Houston crime lab mess

Grits for Breakfast: Nuther Houston crime lab mess: The Houston Chronicle reported last week (June 18) about yet another clusterf&%k at the Houston crime lab, this time involving a tech f...

Grits for Breakfast: Nuther Houston crime lab mess

Grits for Breakfast: Nuther Houston crime lab mess: The Houston Chronicle reported last week (June 18) about yet another clusterf&%k at the Houston crime lab, this time involving a tech f...

Grits for Breakfast: Private lab may have mixed up hundreds of DWI samp...

Grits for Breakfast: Private lab may have mixed up hundreds of DWI samp...: Here's another mess for the Texas Forensic Science Commission to sort through, this time related to a private lab handling DWI blood wor...

The truth about Cholesterol by Dr. Joel Wallach.avi

Grits for Breakfast: Private prison roundup

Grits for Breakfast: Private prison roundup: Here are a number of private prison related items that deserve Grits readers' attention: Texas Prison Bidness: Geo's Karnes County...

Grits for Breakfast: Roundup: Justice economics, pot politics, Taser po...

Grits for Breakfast: Roundup: Justice economics, pot politics, Taser po...: Here are a few items that haven't made it into their own individual posts but deserve Grits readers' attention: The real border se...

Grits for Breakfast: Willingham prosecutor allegedly failed to disclose...

Grits for Breakfast: Willingham prosecutor allegedly failed to disclose...: The New York Times this week (Feb. 27) published an article on the Todd Willingham case casting doubt on the credibility of a jailhouse inf...

Grits for Breakfast: Private prison roundup

Grits for Breakfast: Private prison roundup: Here are a number of private prison related items that deserve Grits readers' attention: Texas Prison Bidness: Geo's Karnes County...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas' new junk science writ called 'elegant' and ...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas' new junk science writ called 'elegant' and ...: The Atlantic has a story (" In Texas, a New Law Lets Defendants Fight Bad Science ," Feb. 28) about SB 344 by Texas state Sen. J...

Grits for Breakfast: Governor signs junk-science habeas bill

Grits for Breakfast: Governor signs junk-science habeas bill: Grits was particularly gratified to finally see Governor Perry has signed SB 344 by Whitmire/Turner ensuring access to the courts for habea...

Grits for Breakfast: Corruption allegations vs. San Antonio judge

Grits for Breakfast: Corruption allegations vs. San Antonio judge: Reported the SA Express-News today : Republican state District Judge Angus McGinty is expected to resign as soon as Friday amid allegati...

Grits for Breakfast: DA's files lost in Ed Graf arson case

Grits for Breakfast: DA's files lost in Ed Graf arson case: The McLennan County District Attorney's Office has lost the files from Ed Graf's original trial in which he was convicted based on j...

Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...

Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...: Check out this excellent story by Maurice Chammah from the Center for Public Integrity examining the closure of the Texas Juvenile Justice ...

Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...

Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...: Check out this excellent story by Maurice Chammah from the Center for Public Integrity examining the closure of the Texas Juvenile Justice ...

Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...

Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...: Check out this excellent story by Maurice Chammah from the Center for Public Integrity examining the closure of the Texas Juvenile Justice ...

Grits for Breakfast: DA's files lost in Ed Graf arson case

Grits for Breakfast: DA's files lost in Ed Graf arson case: The McLennan County District Attorney's Office has lost the files from Ed Graf's original trial in which he was convicted based on j...

Grits for Breakfast: Corruption allegations vs. San Antonio judge

Grits for Breakfast: Corruption allegations vs. San Antonio judge: Reported the SA Express-News today : Republican state District Judge Angus McGinty is expected to resign as soon as Friday amid allegati...

Grits for Breakfast: 'First 48' profits from false accusations against ...

Grits for Breakfast: 'First 48' profits from false accusations against ...: The New Times in Miami has an exceptional piece about an reality show on A&E titled " The First 48 makes millions off imprisoning ...

Grits for Breakfast: Judges must enforce Michael Morton Act, now in eff...

Grits for Breakfast: Judges must enforce Michael Morton Act, now in eff...: Since the New York Times recently decried " rampant prosecutorial misconduct " related to concealment of exculpatory evidence, we ...