Grits for Breakfast

Here's the text of a press release received this morning from the Council of State Governments Justice Center revealing some startling t...

Thanks to a helpful reader for pointing out yet another "innocence" story, this time out of DeWitt County, that luckily didn't...

Not in Lubbock , anyway. At least if you can't afford a commercial kitchen.

The Corpus Christi Caller Times had an article over the weekend about the high cost of paying for indigent defense in capital murder cases (...

Brilliant observation, and true: What's the secret ingredient to Texas' much-ballyhooed job creation boom that you'll never hear...

Here are a few news items related to police misconduct that caught Grits' attention recently: Sheriff's Captain acquitted of prope...

The feds have been looking into unspecified and possibly unrelated public corruption allegations involving Dallas County Commissioner John W...

Reports the Houston Chronicle , Houston police officer "Angela Horton, 36, wants the public to remember that police officers have to m...

A small Intermediate Sanctions Facility housed at the Liberty County Jail will close in September thanks to budget cutbacks at TDCJ, emphas...

Jeff Gamso tells the story of a hate-crime victim who was shot in the face - the lone survivor from three shootings by the same white supre...

Here's a notable excerpt from the latest annual report (pdf, pp. 20-22) from the Austin Police Monitor arguing that racial profiling at...

Yikes! Reports Matt Ledesma at the Wichita Falls Times Record News , "a Wichita Falls police officer was driving nearly twice the poste...

Grits has argued repeatedly that, despite the raging cartel wars south of the Rio Grande, the concept of "spillover" violence into...

For reasons I've never understood, Travis County perennially has a terrible time accurately uploading crime information into the state d...

The Dallas News has been covering the local bail bond industry lately, honing in on tens of millions in unpaid judgments owed to the county ...

The Houston Chronicle has a story today (" Evidence in teen's 1995 rape leads to new charges ," July 13) about a cold rape kas...

Texas state Sen. Chris Harris has said he'll file legislation to enact "Caylee's Law," which would make it a felony for a...

Here are several items I noticed this week that may interest Grits readers: Bob Libal: " Secure Communities makes our community less s...

How much of an inmate's sentence will they serve before release? In FY 2010, on average prisoners released from the Texas Department of ...

The report from ASCLD/LAB, the national accrediting body, which caused the El Paso PD crime lab narcotics division to be placed on probation...