Grits for Breakfast

Austin attorney Kiele Linroth Pace has a couple of thematically linked posts on the blog Austin Justice : The first one pointed to a States...

A staffer recently asked me for bill suggestions that might go through the House Corrections Committee, so I offered several ideas, none ful...

Check out a flattering profile from BBC on the Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship program and its founder Catherine Rohr. This is a progra...

Rep. Lon Burnam of Fort Worth, a member of the Texas House of Representatives and perhaps that body's most liberal member, has filed a ...

Quite a few of exonerated clients of (my employers at) the Innocence Project of Texas , most of whom have been freed based on DNA evidence y...

With the 81st Texas legislative session full upon us, I wanted to point readers (and especially, readers with blogs) to free online tools av...

Several interesting graffiti-related items recently came to my attention: Check out the photo blog ATX Graffiti for some visually stunning ...

Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman has an excellent piece this morning describing in detail how investigators believe cell phones and other c...

Via the Carnival Against Sexual Violence and Female Impersonator , we get more information about Montague County Sheriff Bill Keating who ...

On Saturday, Kathy and I visited the Blanton Art Museum , and I was particularly pleased to learn of this 16th century engraving by Giorgio ...

A retired TYC training specialist and current McLennan Community College juvenile corrections teacher, Mike Miller, offered up a guest colum...

Well, despite my most sincere urgings, Congress included a boost to the federal Byrne grant program in its just passed stimulus package. A f...

With Chairman John Whitmire and the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee p oised to exercise greater oversight over asset forfeiture acc...

I've been railing against bribe takers and bribe givers in public corruption cases on this blog for some time now ; we've even ...

Not every actual innocence case involves murders, rapes, or other heinous crimes. In San Antonio, between 2/3 and 3/4 of positive urine test...

Having written the other day about asset forfeiture abuses , I was pleased to do a TV interview yesterday with a local reporter from the Val...

Dallas and Carrollton are now impounding cars of drivers with no insurance when they're pulled over at traffic stops - that's about...

Texas House committee assignments are (finally) out today - see here (pdf). Here's the list for criminal justice related committees: Co...

For those looking to read tea leaves regarding the Obama Administration's likely approach to drug policy, meet his just-appointed drug c...

An article at Stateline.org (" Stimulus prompts debate over police funds ," Feb. 11) cited some of my past work critical of the fe...