Grits for Breakfast

A second attorney has filed claims that Harris County medical examiner reports are invalid based on researcher and occasional Grits commente...

Eroy Brown, a TDCJ prisoner serving time in a South Carolina prison to protect him from state retaliation, is up for parole, reports Mike Wa...

In a major victory for private prison lobbyists, the Obama Administration has announced a dramatic change in incarceration policy regarding ...

Grits mentioned earlier this month that the Governor will withhold a portion of federal grant funding from counties beginning next year if ...

Your Winner: 2011 Worst Prosecutor of the Year, John "Marty" Bradley Over at The Agitator, Williamson County DA John Bradley ed...

A pair of stories out of smaller jurisdictions provide examples of ways Texas counties are attempting to save money by reducing jail populat...

Tanya Eiserer at the Dallas News has a crackerjack story on the hot-button topic of alcoholism and law-enforcement culture (" They drin...

At the Dallas News, columnist Steve Blow had a piece yesterday (" Mental illness leaves man trapped in county jail ," Jan. 15) abo...

Texas' newest crime lab, run by Sam Houston State University in Montgomery County, opened in 2010 with the promise of three years of fed...

The Forensic Science Commission directed their complaint screening committee today to consider a new case out of the Austin crime lab, discu...

A story from the Austin Statesman published January 5 reminded Grits of a research project I conceived awhile back, but put on the back she...

A fired scientist at the Austin PD crime lab is making serious, public allegations, including that the lab issued reports in drug cases with...

A reader alerts me to a possible false conviction out of Brownwood, and a recent one, to boot. Reports the Abilene Reporter-News (" Was...

In a local story from the Valley about a change of leadership at the police union in the McAllen police department (" Police officers u...

In Mount Pleasant, Grits was interested to see a debate covered at the local bail bond board over whether Titus County should create its own...

Williamson County District Judge Ken Anderson, reports Chuck Lindell at the Austin Statesman , filed a brief with the court which "accu...

See Jordan Smith's Top Ten Criminal Justice stories of 2011 at the Austin Chronicle, which has some crossover but quite a few differenc...

Several posts from other Texas blogs related to topics sometimes discussed on Grits deserve readers' attention: Some Harris County gra...

I ran across a " legislative primer " (pdf) published in February 2011 by Legislative Budget Board that I hadn't seen before w...

Money from red-light cameras designated for Texas trauma hospitals isn't actually making it to the intended recipient, the Dallas News r...