People Against Prison Abuse

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Grits for Breakfast: Meditating on misdemeanors, the human toll of pris...: Here are a few odds and ends that will simultaneously clear my browser tabs and point readers to a few interesting items about which I don&#...

Grits for Breakfast: Reasonably Suspicious: The conservative case for r...: Does God have a Texas accent? Mandy Marzullo and I address this and other pressing questions on the latest edition (May 2018) of Just Libert...

Grits for Breakfast: On recidivism, abolitionism, diversion, zoning, an...: Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere: Pam Colloff kicks ass Pam Colloff&#...

Grits for Breakfast: Lies, damn lies, and claims by counties about unfu...: Officials in Tom Green County are telling the press and the public that the state owes counties some $2.6 billion for indigent defense costs...

Grits for Breakfast: Remembering Texas' now-defunct drug-task-force sys...: On Twitter, a reader came up with a blast from the past, asking whatever happened to Texas' multi-jurisdictional drug task forces, whic...

Grits for Breakfast: Appointed counsel in Austin radically increases ch...: Defendants in Travis County were far more likely to be convicted of state-jail felony drug charges if they were indigent with an appointed a...

Grits for Breakfast: Don't make excuses for bad choices by Harris Count...: The truth about Harris County judges misleading the courts and intentionally violating the constitutional rights of defendants before them ...