Grits for Breakfast

The average Texas prison inmate's reading and math skills are at a fifth grade level, the superintendent of TDCJ's Windham School Di...

The section of the Texas House Corrections Committee interim report to the 84th Legislature on "recidivism" had some good element...

An op ed in the Amarillo Globe News today by restorative justice advocates with the same title as this post argues for a smarter approach t...

Coupla news items caught my eye related to budget cuts at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. First, reports Mike Ward at the Austin S...

A recurring theme in the budget battle at the 82nd Texas Legislature is that the proposed Senate budget - which includes tapping the state...

Prison closures were abated and some of the probation and treatment funds scheduled for cuts were restored in the state budget on the Senate...

The Austin Statesman today editorialized against providing post-secondary vocational courses to Texas prison inmates, and made this flawed ...

I can't tell if it's part of the $34 million already slated to be cut from the Windham School District, but Mike Ward at the Austin ...

At the Fort Worth Strartlegram, Jill "J.R." Labbe takes aim at the Senate Finance Committee's call for cutting prison educatio...

Senate Education Committee Chair Florence Shapiro called the budget of the Windham School District, which educates Texas prisoners at 112 pr...

In response to HB 409 by Eissler proposing to require parolees to achieve a G.E.D to complete supervision, former Corrections Committee Cha...