Grits for Breakfast

Although corporations are presumed to be people when it comes to campaign contributions, per the US Supreme Court's Citizens United rul...

According to AP : Unable to dissuade panhandlers from asking people for money, the San Antonio police chief now wants authority for his offi...

Grits has discussed police use of fake cell-phone towers (or "IMSI catchers," colloquially known by the brand name "Stingr...

Mark Bennett has a nice post up at Defending People detailing the ongoing First Amendment challenges to various Texas criminal statutes. Che...

Michael Morton, perhaps Texas' most famous exoneree since the Tulia defendants, has a new website promoting his book, Getting Life ( T...

Texas' Fourth Court of Appeals in San San Antonio recently ruled that police are not required to obtain a warrant to acquire cell-site l...

Apparently, today is National Grits for Breakfast Day ! Who'da thought? One might have assumed they'd have waited until the ten...

The Austin City Council banned talking on a hand-held cell phone driving, not just texting, despite evidence from states which have enacted ...

Grits has suggested in the past that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed more criminal justice reform legislation , arguably, than any sittin...

Just to clear my browser tabs, here are a few mostly unrelated links that haven't made it into independent Grits posts but deserve reade...

New reporting deadlines for criminal defense attorneys and counties take effect this fall when the final elements of HB 1318 take effect be...

Grits observed earlier this month that the most successful wearable tech businesses so far have been in the corrections industry - e.g., po...

Here are a couple of recent stories about jail diversion programs for the mentally ill in San Antonio and Houston being touted as models (ev...

At Texas Monthly's website, Annie Melton reflects on the looming question: " Will a ruling on extreme conditions at the Louisiana S...

More detail on Montgomery County commissioners clowning around on jail overcrowding instead of confronting its causes, mainly excessive pret...

Via Mark Bennett , here's Texas Gov. Rick Perry's pretrial writ of habeas corpus (pdf) asking a district judge (and ultimately the ...

At the Washington Post we find an article titled " For Sale: Systems that can secretly track where cell phone users go around the globe...

Grits cannot and will not respond to every bit of campaign-related criminal justice flotsam and jetsam on this blog. The task of correcting ...

Grits avoids much discussion of hot-button topics from other states like the Ferguson riots because there are enough problems with the ju...

Grits doesn't track adult prison design issues much anymore, mainly because I want the state of Texas to tear down prisons, not build ne...