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When I saw that an inmate recently hanged himself in the Waller County Jail - the same jail in which Sandra Bland died - on a hunch, I chec...

Today's news about the $1.9 million settlement of the lawsuit filed by Sandra Bland's family against the Waller County Jail and the ...

For reasons I can't fathom, the report released this week by a committee convened to examine the Waller County Sheriff's Office fol...

When Tasers were first introduced, proponents pitched them as an alternative to deadly force. In practice, though, use of deadly force by po...

Check out a letter from the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition and a dozen allied groups to DPS Col. Steve McCraw and the Waller County Sheri...

Ed. Note : As Grits prepares to go on vacation for a couple of weeks, Rebecca Bernhardt and Emily Gerrick from the Texas Fair Defense Projec...

Grits readers are so familiar with the masthead that most of you have probably stopped reading it: "You might beat the rap, but you won...

Your preoccupied correspondent had not until this morning read the voluminous press surrounding Sandra Bland's untimely and unlikely sui...