Sunday, February 25, 2018

Grits for Breakfast: Don't make excuses for bad choices by Harris Count...

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 ...

Thursday, February 1, 2018

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...

Monday, January 15, 2018

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...

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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...

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

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...

Sunday, December 3, 2017

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...

Friday, November 24, 2017

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...