'Round the blogs

While I take care of other business today, let me refer readers to these Texas blogs which all have up interesting and worthy recent posts:

• The Dallas News Crime Blog was recently upgraded to include regular contributions from beat reporters and will be belatedly added to Grits regular links list. Give it a read.
  

• Mark Bennett and the blogger at Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center each have posts about lawyers on both sides of the bar saving lives outside the line of duty.

• Bob Libal at Texas Prison Bidness reports that private prison contractor Corrections Corporation of America is betting on increased immigration detention no matter who wins the election, counting on continued gridlock to prevent comprehensive reform.