Grits for Breakfast

Josie Duffy Rice has a  solid piece in the NY Times  on "the myth of the progressive prosecutor." Grits agrees with much of what s...

Here are a few items which failed to make it into independent posts over the holiday but deserve Grits readers' attention: Violence, n...

Derek Cohen of the Texas Public Policy Foundation has an interesting essay in the SA Express-News titled, " Texas should lead on restor...

Let's highlight several pieces of Texas legislation filed recently that piqued Grits' interest. There's HOPE for probation ref...

I received email notice of an upcoming Austin event featuring a film and discussion of restorative justice and in particular the sort of vic...

See an interesting article from the Christian Science Monitor about a boat builder from Maine who runs a non-profit facilitating victim-off...

Jeff Gamso tells the story of a hate-crime victim who was shot in the face - the lone survivor from three shootings by the same white supre...

An important new report out of the U.K. could signal the start of a widespread shift toward use of "restorative justice" technique...

Before I leave the subject of Wednesday's House Corrections Committee meeting, one more idea from Harris County DA Pat Lykos that might ...

A few disparate items that deserve Grits readers attention: 'Forgiving My Daughter's Killer' From the Washington Post, see ...

Via The Crime Report : A new publication by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority provides suggestions for how schools can ad...

From the Dallas News Crime Blog : Those looking for an alternative to the 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' approach to crimi...

I'm a supporter of drug court programs, but I also believe they shouldn't be immune from criticism and all such diversion programs s...

Given this blog's interest in the " restorative justice " movement, I'm pleased to see HB 2139 by McLendon on Thursday...

A Texas man went to jail on principle in Georgia this week, but it wasn't some latter-day civil rights protest: Fulton County authoriti...

Last summer Grits featured a series proposing a three-pronged approach to graffiti enforcement based on restorative justice principles cons...

Thanks to the reader who sent me a link to the website of the Juvenile Justice Ministries of Texas, which is "a Christ-centered associ...

Because children of incarcerated parents are 6-8 times more likely than their peers to wind up in prison themselves, I've long believed ...

Yesterday I mentioned that my brother John asked on his blog for suggestions what local clergy could do to reduce violent crime and its co...

On his blog Wondering Thoughts , my brother, a Baptist preacher in Shreveport, LA, yesterday posted this query: If you haven't noticed, ...