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...

Grits for Breakfast: Five new indictments for former parole commissione...

Grits for Breakfast: Five new indictments for former parole commissione...: A reader emails to point out that former parole commissioner Pamela Freeman, who was indicted for record tampering in 2014 has five new fel...

Grits for Breakfast: Two calls for greater prison oversight

Grits for Breakfast: Two calls for greater prison oversight: Today we find two important calls for prison oversight. First, in the New York Times, Grits contributing writer Michele Deitch coauthored a ...

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