Grits for Breakfast

Rather than focus this week on the bills up in the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee - which as I've mentioned has become an incr...

The House Corrections Committee passed HB 2807 by Madden , which is a major Texas Youth Commission reform bill, out of committee last night....

The Governor put his Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw in charge of gathering nearly 40 million law enforcement records about Texans ...

Legislation passed out of the House State Affairs Committee last week puts too much power in the Governor's hands and improperly orders ...

Reacting to Anderson Cooper's story about snitching on 60 Minutes, Davey D's Hip Hop blog poses an important question: This writer...

At Burkablog, Patricia Kilday Hart has the behind the scenes story of Lt. Governor Dewhurst's arm twisting to get senators to approve ...

The House Corrections Committee is meeting this morning to consider pending House bills, of which there are many, and also a sole Senate bi...

The Corrections Association of Texas which represents prison workers will rally tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. to tell the Legislature, "...

I'd missed a fascinating investigative story on parole revocations by Chuck Lindell in the Austin Statesman last week (" For prison...

Just like in the adult prison system which warehouses tens of thousands of mentally ill offenders , the Texas Youth Commission has struggled...

I've written that Texas' proposed expansion of wiretapping authority is a solution looking for a problem , and here are the stats to...

Taking a cue from reports at the Texas Observer blog and Grits , this 90-second YouTube submission from a former offender turned activist o...

Two TYC-related updates: Reporter Nate Blakeslee, who first broke the story of the alleged sex scandal at the Texas Youth Commission in the...

Having begun a review of the week's criminal justice action at the Texas Legislature here and here , let's wind up the analysis wit...

UPDATE HERE Via Rush Limbaugh and Drudge , I discover that CBS News will tackle the complex subject of informants this weekend on 60 Minute...

Arguments at the US Supreme Court over capital punishment this week shed new and unflattering light on the status of the mentally ill in Tex...

Two bad bills aimed at allowing questionable evidence into court in sexual assault cases passed out of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Comm...

Man, the Texas Legislature is now moving through legislation fast and furious as members begin to realize there are only 40 days left in th...

I thought this artwork was an interesting choice for a religious Texas youth camp : The event isn't aimed at kids of incarcerated parent...

This just isn't right - now we're taking out the Texas Youth Commission's problems on people who had nothing to do with the scan...