Grits for Breakfast

On the November episode of the Reasonably Suspicious podcast , my co-host Mandy Marzullo and I discussed a new, commissioned report by the ...

Local media discussions about jail overcrowding can sometimes be dishearteningly ignorant. At the Amarillo Globe-News, the "cirector [s...

In Amarillo, the Potter County Jail is full and the Sheriff's Office wants to expand, reported the Amarillo Globe News last week ("...

On the question of whether elected constables are still necessary in the 21st century , the Amarillo Globe-News published an op ed by an Am...

I should mention after reporting how Sheriffs in Bexar and Potter Counties were hounded out of office over allegations of commissary-rela...

Inmate deaths in county jails may be bubbling to the surface as a statewide issue of concern in 2008. Several recent cases collectively give...

Potter County Sheriff Mike Shumate has been convicted of bribery and yesterday was sentenced to six months jail time and eight years on pro...

An all-woman jury yesterday in Amarillo brought back a guilty verdict against Potter County Sheriff Mike Shumate for taking bribes from the ...

Mid America Services, the Dallas-based company that allegedly bribed the Potter County Sheriff to receive jail commissary contracts, was al...

This time in Potter County . Another recent bribery scandal involving the commissary in Bexar County resulted in the Sheriff's indictmen...

Normally when I write about jail overcrowding in some particular county, it's easy to identify the right solution because they're mo...