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- Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly
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Jim Bethke, Texas Indigent Defense Commission
"Grits for Breakfast has done a terrific job covering Texas prison overcrowding issues."
- Doug Berman, Sentencing Law & Policy
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"I always tell people interested in these issues that your blog is the most important news source, and have had high-ranking corrections officials tell me they read it regularly."
- Scott Medlock, Texas Civil Rights Project
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- Solomon Moore, NY Times criminal justice correspondent
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- Donald Lee, Texas Conference of Urban Counties
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- Texas Public Policy Foundation
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Kim Vickers,
Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education
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Maurice Chammah,
The Marshall Project
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1 comment:
Two bills were filed last week that would allow for certain juvenile probation officers to carry a weapon while on duty.
It will be interesting to see where the opposition to this bill will come..
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