Grits for Breakfast: TJJD Ombudsman Firing: Shooting the Messenger

Grits for Breakfast: TJJD Ombudsman Firing: Shooting the Messenger: When one reads the press accounts which broke the recent scandals at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department or talk to the reporters who cove...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas should replicate OK approach on drug felonie...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas should replicate OK approach on drug felonie...: Your correspondent has maintained for years that, after Jim Thorpe left, the best thing ever to come out of Oklahoma was I-35. Grits has lon...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas getting better at identifying problems at ju...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas getting better at identifying problems at ju...: In reaction to revelations of dysfunctional youth prisons, advocates  including your correspondent  have been calling to  dismantle them and...

Grits for Breakfast: Brandi Grissom Interview: TJJD/Gainesville sex abu...

Grits for Breakfast: Brandi Grissom Interview: TJJD/Gainesville sex abu...: In the December episode of the Reasonably Suspicious podcast , we included an excerpt from an interview by Grits with Brandi Grissom-Swiceg...

Grits for Breakfast: What next after TJJD's Gainesville scandal?

Grits for Breakfast: What next after TJJD's Gainesville scandal?: In the wake of recent sex-abuse allegations at the Gainesville State School, the Dallas Morning News editorial board  recommended closing Te...

Grits for Breakfast: The amazing lengths to which the Texas CCA will go...

Grits for Breakfast: The amazing lengths to which the Texas CCA will go...: Here's a crazy case out of Harris County: The Government-Always-Wins faction on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals wrangled a four-mem...

Grits for Breakfast: The amazing lengths to which the Texas CCA will go...

Grits for Breakfast: The amazing lengths to which the Texas CCA will go...: Here's a crazy case out of Harris County: The Government-Always-Wins faction on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals wrangled a four-mem...