Grits for Breakfast

While up at the capitol Friday on other business, I ran into some Harris County folks - including former Judge and current jail czarina Capr...

Michele Deitch from the LBJ School emails to remind me that late registration is still open for an event in Austin on Monday filled with not...

Brandi Grissom at the Texas Tribune this week had a story following up on a budget angle covered on Grits last month: " Texas prison c...

The Governor decried "sanctuary cities" as a statewide emergency and legislators have scurried to file bills forcing local police ...

Perhaps the Governor's office spoke too soon about their authority to pardon Anthony Graves. Over at Pardon Power , clemency expert PS R...

The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee has posted an agenda which includes three important pieces of innocence legislation carried by C...

Here are a several stories that may interest Grits readers, starting off with items from couple of Houston criminal defense blawggers doing ...

Coupla notable, if troubled, innocence-related stories: Tony Hall, the East Texas man whose false conviction for child molestation was dis...

Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman has a story today (" State looking at release of foreign, or sick inmates ") in which legislator...

Here are a few juvenile justice stories which caught my eye recently that may interest Grits readers: Ex-TYC Auditor: Lack of policy allow...

In the wake of a recent audit alleging that the University of Texas Medical Branch overcharged for prison health services, I was interested...

Yesterday, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition presented a briefing to roughly 120 legislati...

Here are several innocence-related stories I don't have time to discuss this a.m., but which merit Grits readers attention: No compens...

The title of this post is the headline to a notable NPR story today about the metamorphosis of debates over incarceration in light of state...

Given what's been coming out in the John Paul Hernandez trial, I'm fairly shocked that the former Texas Youth Commission administrat...

Having referenced recent media coverage of an untimely in-custody death in Longview of a woman jailed for traffic tickets, I should mention...

Brandi Grissom has a feature at the Texas Tribune on the disturbing number of recent inmates deaths at the Gregg County Jail in Longview - ...

Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, writing in yesterday's National Review Online , argues that "the 'lock ’em up and throw away...

Just a few items for y'all this morning while I'm focused elsewhwere: House crimjust committee assignments boring but significant ...

I turned on the House Appropriations Committee hearing first thing this morning to listen to exceedingly brief presentations from the Legisl...