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Illicit sexual relations between inmates and guards " made up 38 percent of all sexual offenses reported in 2005" at Texas correct...

This picture encapsulates something I love about Texas: All types of people find a place at the table if they're smart about it, even (p...

The Dallas Morning News' Kevin Krause is a fine reporter, I've found, with this caveat - you should usually read his reporting from ...

In a headline at Reason Hit and Run that, as one commenter said, is "pure poetry," Radley Balko asks " Why Does Andy Griffit...

"That's hot," one Texas prosecutor responded to news that Paris Hilton received a 36-month probated sentence for "alcoho...

This Grits post about tumultuous labor relations at Bexar County's Adult Probation division drew a large number of comments, some of th...

According to the Statesman's Mike Ward (" Criminal justice leaders push home nurses, anger management to help trim crime ," Ja...

Thank the Governor once again for keeping the border secure - this time from retirees, hog farmers and hillbillies in Arkansas! According to...

Here are two stories that are both starting to feel quite repetitive: First, another case of someone lost in a Texas county jail system for...

I love that the Legislative Budget Board actually has a countdown timer with a running clock down to the second until the Texas legislative...

Since we're on the subject of appellate courts this morning , I should mention two good recent posts about the US 5th Circuit Court of A...

Forty-seven of the 392 defendants on Texas death row were convicted using sentencing instructions the US Supreme Court later declared uncons...

Critics of Texas prosecutors' closed file policies are taking their complaints to the street. The good folks at West Texas Beat let us ...

I'm not sure how big a market there could possibly be for such things, but at the Texas Prison Museum giftshop you can buy for $15 a Te...

Read about how guards deal with self-injuring inmates at The Back Gate, and get a sneak preview of "The Last Statement" exhibit ...

If it's true of adult prisons that if you build them, they will come , is it conversely true that if you get rid of juvie prisons, the o...

According to a new report (pdf) published this week by the national ACLU, at least two Texas anti-war organizations - Veterans for Peace, a...

I've not had a chance to read it yet, but this brand spanking new, blandly titled report from the Texas Legislative Budget Board, "...

The Texas Legislature has adjourned until Monday. With the politicians gone and the freeze momentarily lifted, Austin almost seems to be br...

State Sen. Craig Estes has proposed SB 185 which purports to authorize the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to house prisoners convicte...