Monday, September 21, 2015

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...

Sunday, September 13, 2015

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