Grits for Breakfast

Early voting begins today for the Nov. 6 election, but in an age when television advertising rates make mass education campaigns extremely e...

The Dallas News this weekend offered up two excellent articles by Dianne Jennings and Darlean Spangenberger on Texas new sex offender law, t...

I wanted to point Grits readers to several disparate items related to the Texas Youth Commission: Joint Legislative Hearing Monday Week Afte...

So the results from Grits' weekly reader poll are in, with just over 300 Grits readers expressing an opinion on the subject, "Shoul...

Mid America Services, the Dallas-based company that allegedly bribed the Potter County Sheriff to receive jail commissary contracts, was al...

It really is time right now to demand corroboration for testimony in court by criminals who receive leniency for their own crimes. I don...

Supposedly this guy did , but it sounds really unlikely to me. If Governor Perry hadn't vetoed legislation in 2005 requiring written or...

Why do Harris County juvenile court judges refuse appointments to board-certified juvenile attorneys while giving lucrative assignments to t...

Texas Appleseed has produced a new study showing that some school districts use their discretion to kick kids out of regular classrooms int...

I just wanted to mention a few Texas blogs that have been producing remarkable stuff recently, in many cases on topics I've neglected, t...

I meant to write about this article when it came out, but since I didn't get to a full analysis, I wanted to at least pose the question ...

Before getting back to a few extant TYC-related topics, I wanted to point Grits readers to several news and blog items I've seen this we...

This time in Potter County . Another recent bribery scandal involving the commissary in Bexar County resulted in the Sheriff's indictmen...

Departing Youth Commission conservator Ed Owens ducked today's House Corrections hearing due to a family emergency, but TYC has finally ...

"As best as I know," said acting TYC Commissioner Dimitria Pope to the House Corrections Committee, all agency staff have all been...

Before I run out for the morning, I should mention: Texas Youth Commission Ombudsman Will Harrell testified to the House Corrections Committ...

The Tyler Morning Telegraph this morning published an op ed I wrote opposing new Smith County jail bonds, but as a long letter to the edito...

For those who missed Friday's hearing on monitoring of private youth prisons by the Texas Youth Commission (and who don't have 3.5 ...

Thanks to an email from TCJC I discover that the Annie Casey Foundation held a national conference last month in Dallas on juvenile justice...

Interested in learning more about private prison regulation in light of the recent scandals with the GEO group at TYC and in Dickens County,...