Grits for Breakfast: "Isolated incident" at TDCJ means things that happ...

Grits for Breakfast: "Isolated incident" at TDCJ means things that happ...: Not long ago, Grits parsed statements from Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman and concluded that his consistent pattern of resp...

Grits for Breakfast: #MeToo among Texas women prison guards

Grits for Breakfast: #MeToo among Texas women prison guards: Go read Keri Blakinger's new Houston Chronicle story on the topic . Keri writes that, "female officers also have to contend with ha...

Grits for Breakfast: Now in a dwindling minority, failure to "Raise the...

Grits for Breakfast: Now in a dwindling minority, failure to "Raise the...: The Missouri Legislature recently voted to raise the age of adult criminal responsibility from 17 to 18 years old, beginning January 1, 202...

Grits for Breakfast: Zero tolerance makes zero sense, and other stories...

Grits for Breakfast: Zero tolerance makes zero sense, and other stories...: Here are a few odds and ends that merit readers' attention: Learning the ropes Politico ran a nice feature on Nueces County DA Mark G...

Grits for Breakfast: Meditating on misdemeanors, the human toll of pris...

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...

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...

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&#...