Grits for Breakfast

See the trailer for a forthcoming documentary film on the T. Don Hutto Immigration Detention Facility in Williamson County, titled " C...

The Governor's first choices turned him down, but the Texas Youth Commission finally has a new conservator, Richard Nedelkoff, the third...

I'm in Fort Worth today for a bit of museuming and a day off. Until I return, check out these blogs for good, recent posts on topics Gri...

Does a prosecutor's promise not to indict a snitch if they talk to authorities make an informant more or less likely to tell the truth? ...

The much-ballyhooed SCOTUS decision on crack sentencing disparities will have little effect overall in Texas, reports the Houston Chronicle...

I've always been a sucker for the line in Frank Capra's Christmas classic, " It's a Wonderful Life ," where at the end...

Having discussed " snitching " in several recent posts , this week's reader poll asks, simply, "In your personal experie...

An Open Letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry: Dear Governor, I read that you are in Iowa speaking to crowds of 20-30 on behalf of Rudy Giul...

Over at the TPM Cafe Book Club this week they're debating the book "Snitch," and unsurprisingly the topic quickly turned to t...

The nation may soon get an up-close and personal look at the pressure the criminal justice system places on witnesses/informants whose testi...

Via Robert Guest at I Was The State , I was pleased to discover an article from the Terrell Tribune (" Just a year old, Kaufman County...

I ran across a pro-drug treatment website from the Texas Panhandle titled Meth Free Texas , whose founder Charlene Cheek had a column earlie...

A couple of national items on the subject of informants caught my eye today: TPM Cafe Book Club Discussing 'Snitch' First, via the A...

One of the more interesting presentations I saw last week in New Orleans at the Drug Policy Alliance conference centered on implementing g...

Gov. Perry just named three new members to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, the governing board for the state prison system. Reports the...

Thanks to Scott Medlock for pointing out to me that the Youth Commission came out with its new treatment program, CoNEXTions , while I was o...

With filing deadline approaching, Burnt Orange Report promotes a plea from Scott Cobb to help locate good candidates to run against incumbe...

Now that Texas prisons are overflowing, we're going to see a lot more articles like this one in the Paris News over the next couple of y...

Perhaps it's all perfectly legal, but a recent hire by the Geo Group, a large private prison firm formerly known as "Wackenhut,...

When it comes to claims that the US-Mexico border allows terrorists through to harm America, they all have one thing in common: So far, none...