Grits' end-of-session reading list

Now that session is ending, Grits has quite a bit of backlogged reading in front of him. For my own convenience I'm gathering links here, and maybe some of y'all will be interested in the same titles.

• Texas Indigent Defense Commission, et. al., "Guideline for Indigent Defense Caseloads." This one's from January but I never fully vetted the 114 page document after Grits initial coverage. One wonders how many attorneys with above guideline caseloads are actually fulfilling their basic duties articulated in the state bar's "Performance Guidelines for Non-Capital Criminal Defense Representation"?
• Texas Defender Service/Texas Appleseed, "Toward More Transparent Justice: The Michael Morton Act's First Year."
• Texas Municipal Courts, The Recorder, "The Fair Defense Act and the Role of the Magistrate."
• Can't vouch for this paper, but the topic of "Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea" is certainly ripe for serious discussion.
• Here's a new article on state-level regulation of criminal history records, "Expunging America's Rap Sheet in the Information Age." 
• From ACLU of Texas: A Solitary Failure: the Waste, Cost and Harm of Solitary Confinement (Feb. 2015).
• See a white paper from the Texas Public Policy Foundation on pretrial proceedings for indigent defendants (April 30, 2015).
• Human Rights Watch: Callous and Cruel: Use of force against inmates with mental disabilities in US jails and prisons. (May 2015)
• From the Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Right, "Banking on Detention: Local lockup quotas and the immigration dragnet." 
• From the Congressional Research Service, "Risk and Needs Assessment in the Criminal Justice System." 
• From the Vera Institute: "The Price of Jails: Measuring the Taxpayer Cost of Local Incarceration." 
• A 2014 law review article: "Brady Reconstructed: An overdue expansion of rights and remedies."

And there are a few habeas corpus related items stacked up in the to-read list:

• I'm interested in a couple of law review articles focused on federal habeas corpus, starting with "Habeas Corpus and the Innocent," and a related item titled, "Beyond a Reasonable Disagreement: Judging Habeas Corpus." The latter article analyzes the high bar to relief in federal habeas claims, which makes me interested to see somebody rigorously analyze, compare and contrast the federal case law and Texas habeas standards, which are more flexible statutorily and (slightly) more generous regarding actual innocence. Most innocence cases I've known much about here in Texas found relief through state habeas writs, which is why I also want to read this item on the decline of state-level habeas over the last 40 years in Georgia.
• Grits has wanted to learn more about writs of amparo, a Mexican-originated post-conviction writ comparable to but different from habeas corpus. Though this item is a few years old, the author discusses its use in the Phillipines "as a remedy to address cases of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances."
• Abraham Lincoln represented a slave owner in a habeas case before he was president. Despite the hagiographic abstract (one hopes, but somehow doubts, it's justified - as a southerner, I know about folks who want to liberate their favorite historical figures from their historical moment) I want to know more, or at least comb the footnotes.

Finally, I was sent an unsolicited review copy of "Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics." Don't know the author, but I may give it a try.

Let me know what else you think merits inclusion on my summer reading list, or what criminal justice material you've been reading lately.