Grits for Breakfast: The arithmetic of de-incarceration: TDCJ edition

Grits for Breakfast: The arithmetic of de-incarceration: TDCJ edition: For long-term de-incarceration strategies to work, in the near term, while crime is low, prisons must release more inmates than they receiv...

Grits for Breakfast: Privately funded prosecutions at the Travis County...

Grits for Breakfast: Privately funded prosecutions at the Travis County...: A joint investigation by the Austin Statesman and the Texas Tribune exposed a pay-to-prosecute arrangement between the Travis County DA and ...

Grits for Breakfast: End of an Era: Rissie Owens replaced as parole boa...

Grits for Breakfast: End of an Era: Rissie Owens replaced as parole boa...: There was a time when Rissie Owens and her husband Ed were the ultimate Texas prison power couple. He ran TDCJ

Grits for Breakfast: Texas Monthly interviews Grits

Grits for Breakfast: Texas Monthly interviews Grits: After your correspondent became executive director of the Innocence Project of Texas last month, Michael Hall at Texas Monthly asked to inte...

The Truth About John McCain, American Traitor

Grits for Breakfast: Officials point fingers as Abilene prisons' mid-su...

Grits for Breakfast: Officials point fingers as Abilene prisons' mid-su...: A pair of prisons in Abilene have suffered from low water pressure since Wednesday, and TDCJ and local officials are pointing fingers regard...

Grits for Breakfast: Tweaking Texas' junk science habeas writ, and why ...

Grits for Breakfast: Tweaking Texas' junk science habeas writ, and why ...: Legislation codifying the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Nine More States Comply With Federal Prison Rape Law, But DOJ Rejects Texas Governor's Letter| Gay News | Towleroad

Nine More States Comply With Federal Prison Rape Law, But DOJ Rejects Texas Governor's Letter| Gay News | Towleroad

Grits for Breakfast: Abbott: Texas intends to comply with federal priso...

Grits for Breakfast: Abbott: Texas intends to comply with federal priso...: Reversing course from Gov. Rick Perry

Grits for Breakfast: In-person-visitation bill nears finish line, grand...

Grits for Breakfast: In-person-visitation bill nears finish line, grand...: Legislation by Rep. Eric Johnson ( SB 549 ) to require most Texas county jails to provide in-person visitation (grandfathering a baker

The Battle Over PREA

The Battle Over PREA

BOP's High Security Facilities Are Most Overcrowded

BOP's High Security Facilities Are Most Overcrowded

Faye Hardin Presents Battle Cry | Show 376 | 5-11-15

Faye Hardin Presents Battle Cry | Show 375 | 5-4-15

Grits for Breakfast: Ted Cruz: Rein in prosecutor power, lower "draconi...

Grits for Breakfast: Ted Cruz: Rein in prosecutor power, lower "draconi...: Several Texans are featured in a new book by the Brennan Center,

Grits for Breakfast: Warrants for stingrays, convictions for forfeiture...

Grits for Breakfast: Warrants for stingrays, convictions for forfeiture...: Here are a few odds and ends to chew on while your correspondent is focused elsewhwere: Legislation filed by state Rep. Duane Bohac (HB 31...

Grits for Breakfast: Sheriff: Suspend, don't terminate Medicaid benefit...

Grits for Breakfast: Sheriff: Suspend, don't terminate Medicaid benefit...: Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia and George Masi, CEO of Harrs Health Sytems authord an op ed in the Houston Chronicle (March 6) calling...

Grits for Breakfast: Poll: Public opinion supports criminal justice ref...

Grits for Breakfast: Poll: Public opinion supports criminal justice ref...: Excellent news from a new poll of a thousand Texas voters sponsored by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Among the highlights: Texans p...

Grits for Breakfast: Bill eliminating pick-a-pal grand jury system clea...

Grits for Breakfast: Bill eliminating pick-a-pal grand jury system clea...: State Sen. John Whitmire's bill eliminating the "key man" system for picking grand jurors cleared the Texas Senate Criminal Ju...

Black 12-year-old goes nuclear on Obama

Black 12-year-old goes nuclear on Obama

Grits for Breakfast: Education vs. prison costs, the Imprisoner's Dilem...

Grits for Breakfast: Education vs. prison costs, the Imprisoner's Dilem...: Here are a few tidbits to chew on while Grits

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ settled discrimination suit by former flak, M...

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ settled discrimination suit by former flak, M...: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice recently settled an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by its former Public Information Offic...

Grits for Breakfast: Harris DA backs eliminating 'key man' system for p...

Grits for Breakfast: Harris DA backs eliminating 'key man' system for p...: It

Grits for Breakfast: More inmates in solitary confinement in Texas than...

Grits for Breakfast: More inmates in solitary confinement in Texas than...: Check out a new report from ACLU of Texas and the Texas Civil Rights Project assessing the state

Grits for Breakfast: Truncated agenda: Aim high on criminal justice thi...

Grits for Breakfast: Truncated agenda: Aim high on criminal justice thi...: Mi amigos Marc Levin and Derek Cohen of the Texas Public Policy Foundation last week published a column on the Texas Tribune's Tribtalk...

Grits for Breakfast: House committee: Raise age of criminal culpability...

Grits for Breakfast: House committee: Raise age of criminal culpability...: The Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee in its interim report (pdf) recommended raising the age of criminal culpability from 17 to...

Grits for Breakfast: House committee: Raise age of criminal culpability...

Grits for Breakfast: House committee: Raise age of criminal culpability...: The Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee in its interim report (pdf) recommended raising the age of criminal culpability from 17 to...

Grits for Breakfast: Truncated agenda: Aim high on criminal justice thi...

Grits for Breakfast: Truncated agenda: Aim high on criminal justice thi...: Mi amigos Marc Levin and Derek Cohen of the Texas Public Policy Foundation last week published a column on the Texas Tribune's Tribtalk...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas saw 615 deaths in custody statewide in 2014;...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas saw 615 deaths in custody statewide in 2014;...: Because the MSM covers the death penalty so closely, one frequently sees headlines like this one -

Grits for Breakfast: Political landscape in Texas Senate taking shape: ...

Grits for Breakfast: Political landscape in Texas Senate taking shape: ...: The political landscape in the Texas state senate during the 84th Texas Legislature, both generally and on the criminal justice front, has b...

Grits for Breakfast: Houston crime lab labeling errors led to dropped D...

Grits for Breakfast: Houston crime lab labeling errors led to dropped D...: More dysfunction at the Houston crime lab, where in Oct. 2013, before its transition from HPD to an independent entity, "A lack of atte...

Grits for Breakfast: Disability and abuse, aging and budgets, chipping ...

Grits for Breakfast: Disability and abuse, aging and budgets, chipping ...: While Grits focuses elsewhere, here are several news items that merit readers' attention: Are disabled inmates at the Estelle Unit abu...

Grits for Breakfast: Pardon me, Governor Abbott, but about your clemenc...

Grits for Breakfast: Pardon me, Governor Abbott, but about your clemenc...: Despite recent national attention to clemency policy , I

Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: USSC: Public comments on proposed sentencing amend...

Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: USSC: Public comments on proposed sentencing amend...: United States Sentencing Commission This notice sets forth the proposed amendments, a synopsis of each proposed amendment, and several is...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas police misconduct roundup

Grits for Breakfast: Texas police misconduct roundup: Grits makes no comprehensive effort to track police misconduct around the state but can