Grits for Breakfast: Appointed counsel in Austin radically increases ch...

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...

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 ...

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...