Grits for Breakfast: House committee: Raise age of criminal culpability...

Grits for Breakfast: House committee: Raise age of criminal culpability...: The Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee in its interim report (pdf) recommended raising the age of criminal culpability from 17 to...

Grits for Breakfast: Truncated agenda: Aim high on criminal justice thi...

Grits for Breakfast: Truncated agenda: Aim high on criminal justice thi...: Mi amigos Marc Levin and Derek Cohen of the Texas Public Policy Foundation last week published a column on the Texas Tribune's Tribtalk...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas saw 615 deaths in custody statewide in 2014;...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas saw 615 deaths in custody statewide in 2014;...: Because the MSM covers the death penalty so closely, one frequently sees headlines like this one -

Grits for Breakfast: Political landscape in Texas Senate taking shape: ...

Grits for Breakfast: Political landscape in Texas Senate taking shape: ...: The political landscape in the Texas state senate during the 84th Texas Legislature, both generally and on the criminal justice front, has b...

Grits for Breakfast: Houston crime lab labeling errors led to dropped D...

Grits for Breakfast: Houston crime lab labeling errors led to dropped D...: More dysfunction at the Houston crime lab, where in Oct. 2013, before its transition from HPD to an independent entity, "A lack of atte...

Grits for Breakfast: Disability and abuse, aging and budgets, chipping ...

Grits for Breakfast: Disability and abuse, aging and budgets, chipping ...: While Grits focuses elsewhere, here are several news items that merit readers' attention: Are disabled inmates at the Estelle Unit abu...

Grits for Breakfast: Pardon me, Governor Abbott, but about your clemenc...

Grits for Breakfast: Pardon me, Governor Abbott, but about your clemenc...: Despite recent national attention to clemency policy , I