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

Grits for Breakfast: Texas Monthly interviews Grits

Grits for Breakfast: Texas Monthly interviews Grits: After your correspondent became executive director of the Innocence Project of Texas last month, Michael Hall at Texas Monthly asked to inte...

The Truth About John McCain, American Traitor

Grits for Breakfast: Officials point fingers as Abilene prisons' mid-su...

Grits for Breakfast: Officials point fingers as Abilene prisons' mid-su...: A pair of prisons in Abilene have suffered from low water pressure since Wednesday, and TDCJ and local officials are pointing fingers regard...

Grits for Breakfast: Tweaking Texas' junk science habeas writ, and why ...

Grits for Breakfast: Tweaking Texas' junk science habeas writ, and why ...: Legislation codifying the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals