Grits for Breakfast: Spotlight on ineffective assistance: Barriers to r...

Grits for Breakfast: Spotlight on ineffective assistance: Barriers to r...: Texas State Rep. Gene Wu once said to me there were three categories of professionals - attorneys, doctors, and engineers - who could do imm...

Grits for Breakfast: Understaffing at Texas prisons and the implication...

Grits for Breakfast: Understaffing at Texas prisons and the implication...: Your correspondent was quoted in a page one article in the Houston Chronicle today, " Mass exodus of Texas prison guards leaves some un...

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ ends solitary confinement as punishment, and ...

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ ends solitary confinement as punishment, and ...: Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere: TDCJ is ending the use of solitary c...

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ ends solitary confinement as punishment, and ...

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ ends solitary confinement as punishment, and ...: Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere: TDCJ is ending the use of solitary c...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas not among states arresting prison visitors f...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas not among states arresting prison visitors f...: In Michigan, state prisons arrest visitors who arrive with outstanding traffic warrants, running their names and arresting them while they w...

Grits for Breakfast: Public defender for appeals would reduce waste, in...

Grits for Breakfast: Public defender for appeals would reduce waste, in...: Lots of appeals in Texas' criminal-court system are filed pro se by people who lack representation, and often they make procedural erro...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas jailhouse-snitch reforms praised

Grits for Breakfast: Texas jailhouse-snitch reforms praised: The New York Times over the weekend (7/15) had a staff editorial praising the latest reforms in Texas  aimed at reining in the use of jailh...