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In Travis County (Austin), " The Sheriff's Department estimates booking people caught with four ounces or less cost more than $1 mi...

Here's an interesting idea: A crime you don't commit, where you can violate the law simply by remaining silent, minding your own bus...

Problems at the Texas Youth Commission, without question, have plummeted to depths beyond my own ability to adequately analyze many importan...

Several recent jail related items deserve Grits readers attention: Val Verde jail deaths, illnesses not related? Kathleen at Texas Prison Bi...

California will soon implement sweeping juvenile justice reforms to address problems of abuse and poor outcomes that mirror many of the prob...

The history of the Texas Youth Commission's 2007 "reforms" so far is mostly a history of policies announced and then retracted...

Having written recently about the need to create legitimate public spaces for graffiti art as part of the solution to uninvited graffiti, I ...

As a couple of folks mentioned in the comments, Texas legislators on a joint oversight committee will return to Austin next Wednesday to hea...

Last night's execution of Johnny Ray Conner was the 400th since Texas resumed the death penalty. In theory I don't oppose the death...

I've been a little busy today but here are several news items that deserve Grits readers attention: Investigator calls for HPD crime lab...

The Texas Youth Commission this spring announced plans to reduce its youth inmate population, but decisions about who goes to TYC are made l...

In the future inmates in Texas prisons can read about Jackie Robinson, even if the Texas Department of Criminal Justice wouldn't let Ken...

Via Burnt Orange Report we learn of a new effort by veteran activist Linda Curtis and the group Independent Texans to impeach Governor Rick...

In the "You learn something new every day" department, most everybody knows that in England a "bobbie" is a policeman, b...

Do you really have a right to confront your accuser if the government doesn't tell you who they are? That question came to mind today wh...

When it comes to graffiti, the Amarillo PD does not consider forgiveness a virtue, reports the Globe-News (" Vandals mark city with gra...

Ben Hiltzheimer at the Eyewitness ID blog rightly says that when it comes to debates about reforming eyewitness identification procedures, ...

Collin County neighbors led by state Rep. Jodie Laubenberg hounded a local halfway house until it finally shut its doors, reports WFAA-TV . ...

I've always been a dog person. Indeed, I like most dogs more than most people, if ever forced to choose. So I strongly support the recen...

If the pen is mightier than the sword, then words must truly be dangerous things. Which must explain why the Texas Department of Criminal Ju...