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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Humpty Dumpty and the Castle Doctrine The judge in former Dallas ...

At a Texas House Appropriations subcommittee meeting this week, legislators and staff openly discussed the possibility of additional prison ...

Corrections Corporation of America, recently renamed CoreCivic, wants to  take over the former Al Price juvie unit in Beaumont  and convert ...

Mothballing of a small TDCJ facility in downtown Houston has begun,  reported the Houston Business Journal . With a few small tweaks - most ...

Private prison stocks soared upon news of Donald Trump's ascension to the presidency. That makes sense. For starters, it's possi...

A few things, while I've got you: Lab delays spur boost in Nueces Co. personal bond use In Corpus Christi, prosecutors have enacted a...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice released its legislative appropriations request last week, but declined to identify four percent of...

Grits and others have suggested that Texas could close more prison units to meet budget-cut goals set by the legislative leadership, and h...

While a great deal of attention is paid and criticism is devoted to private prisons, the truth about profit-based corrections remains more p...

Anyone who claims private prison companies don't profit off misery must reconcile that belief with this comment : “The reality is, we ...

Regular readers won't be surprised at the Bloomberg headline, " How local governments got burned by private prison investments ...

John MacCormack at the SA Express-News described in this morning's paper massive overbuilding at Texas county jails which has mostly go...

Here are a few odds and ends that deserve readers' attention but didn't make it into individual posts during a busy week: State ba...

Riots in Willacy County at a private prison housing federal immigration prisoners last week has been called "predictable" and has...

Here's a browser clearing compendium of items  that merit Grits readers' attention even though I haven't had time to adumbrate t...

Okay, they almost got me. I couldn't tell for sure just from reading it if this Free Press Houston story was satire. Editors confirmed...

The Detroit Free Press has been publishing a terrific series of stories about Aramark, a private vendor of prison food and commissaries whic...

Travis County District Judge Gisela Triana last month ruled that the Texas Public Information Act applies to private prison records, reporte...

Hope you enjoyed a Happy Independence Day, Grits readers. Here are several items that didn't make it into independent posts last week b...

A Travis County judge has ruled that private prison firms are subject to the Texas Public Information Act. See Techdirt and the Courthouse ...