Grits for Breakfast

Via Doc Berman , the LA Times gives more detail about the final deal cut by lawmakers on slashing the California corrections budget, and I ...

Let me refer readers to a new blog called " CourTex " authored by Carl Reynolds , head of the Texas state Office of Court Administ...

In Wichita Falls, economic distress is boosting incarceration rates in the local jail because so many more petty defendants can't afford...

In Lubbock County, a new jail that the commissioners court claimed would generate revenue and reduce burdens on taxpayers is gobbling up the...

Thanks to the addition of billions in federal stimulus funds and a now-vanished revenue infusion from high oil prices last year, Texas was a...

Congrats to Texas Monthly publisher Evan Smith who recently announced he'll leave his current position to launch a nonprofit media ventu...

Having yesterday highlighted the case of a federal probation officer allegedly providing intelligence to smugglers from a drug cartel, I sh...

Yet another bribery case has cropped up involving a criminal justice worker on the Texas border with the arrest of federal probation officer...

The Amarillo Globe-News today has a feature commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Tulia drug stings (" Tulia drug busts: 10 years ...

In the Dallas News this morning, Diane Jennings has a story on Texas' policy of allowing judges to place juveniles as young as 10 years ...

I just ran across a lengthy, excellent article on the sources and frequency of error in fingerprint forensics, published in the online magaz...

Will be Rick Perry's current Homeland Security chief Steve McCraw , reports the Statesman's Mike Ward.

At a Texas Public Safety Commission meeting today, the vendor in charge of collections for the Orwellian-named "Driver Responsibility...

A story published yesterday in the San Antonio Express News announced that Bexar County's controversial probation director, Bill Fitzger...

A US Senate Committee yesterday heard testimony from Texas state Sen. John Whitmire, TDCJ Inspector General John Moriarty, and others regard...

The General Counsel over at the Texas Department of Public Safety believes the agency isn't required to implement an "Indigency pro...

Via Corrections.com : The Women’s Prison Association (WPA) has released the first-ever national report on prison nursery programs. The repor...

The Washington Post today published a "sky is falling" critique of the Supreme Court's decision in Melendez-Diaz that the Conf...

The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition has published its summer newsletter (pdf) including a wrap-up detailing criminal justice bills from t...

Today France celebrates the 220th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, perhaps the only national holiday I'm aware of in any cou...