- Inside the plea mill in San Antonio: "Little-noticed jail court offers inmates a fast track." Related, from the SA Express-News: "Rules for bail punish the poor."
- Eva Ruth Moravec recounted the stories of seven off-duty police officers who shot and killed people in 2016 and differing DA policies about presenting such cases to a grand jury.
- Read how Harris County Sheriff's deputies mistook a sock full of cat litter for meth thanks to faulty field tests which have been responsible for dozens of false convictions.
- Jail failures criticized after Dallas inmate's beating death.
- Will 2017 finally be the year Texas requires police to record custodial interrogations?
- The Texas Inmate Family Association urged greater transparency and oversight at TDCJ.
- Bexar County's probation officers are represented by the local steelworkers union, according to this TV news story. Their union presidents keep getting fired.
- The Texas Lege faces a $7 billion shortfall. Will they close prisons by eliminating private prison contracts to make cuts at TDCJ? Otherwise, their current budgetary growth curve is unsustainable.
- Before the election, criminal justice reformers had stopped losing, reported Jacobin magazine, but hadn't yet started to win. For example, "Reformers have touted conservative Texas, which shed 2,100 inmates, as a model. But Texas still suffers from a sky-high incarceration rate — more than four times higher than Maine’s."
- From Slate: "How bad prosecutors cause bad policing."
- In the wake of shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, police officers say their jobs have gotten more difficult and dangerous, according to a new poll, although officer fatalities "remained far below record highs set in the 1970s."
- From Forbes: "Another constitutional protection that's eroding - double jeopardy."
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Inside the plea mill, how bad prosecutors cause bad policing, and other stories
Here are a few odds and ends which merit Grits readers' attention:
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4 comments:
Matt Bingham in Smith county from tyler, TX. Should be behind bars for is criminal acts as the DA.
Grits, Would you care to tackle this
This no good SOB?
I'm afraid I've got other fish to fry at the moment, 9:38. Plus, you might be surprised at the limited ability of bloggers to lock up public officials of whom they disapprove. An obvious flaw in the system. ;)
Just be glad that the ability of elected DAs to jail random bloggers is nearly as limited; if the road of arbitrary jailings were going to be travelled that would be a much more likely path.
If you have any dirt on the police please post it here. We love that stuff!
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