Grits for Breakfast

DNA has often been referred to as the gold standard of forensic evidence. And when comparing a single sample to a suspect, that's true. ...

There was a time when Rissie Owens and her husband Ed were the ultimate Texas prison power couple. He ran TDCJ's institutional division ...

Apparently today is National Grits for Breakfast Day , I learned via Twitter .  All recipes (e.g., see here and here ) and no criminal-j...

Check out this compilation of legislative recommendations submitted to the Texas House County Affairs Committee during their July 30 hearin...

Here are several recent stories which merit Grits readers' attention: Reviewing criminal justice bills from 84th Texas Legislature S...

When prisons have high rates of staff turnover - thanks in large part to low pay, long hours, and a lack of air conditioning - you end up wi...

Grits remains surprised that MSM coverage of new laws taking effect in Texas September 1st have omitted the state's most important ...

There are a several interesting job openings right now at the Office of Court Administration, including two support staff for the upcoming ...

Gun ownership is on trial in Waco, so why aren't the NRA and all the open-carry advocates going nuts over what's happening regarding...

John MacCormack at the SA Express-News described in this morning's paper massive overbuilding at Texas county jails which has mostly go...

Here are several items which merit readers' attention even if I don't have time to blog on the topics: If coverage in the Express-...

Two recent high-profile news stories shined a spotlight on the use of incentivized jailhouse snitches to supplement flawed arson science in ...

Let's not mince words: It's absurd and disingenuous that authorities in Waco haven't yet released results from ballistics report...

Police accountability issues have risen to the forefront of public discussion in recent months to a greater extent than at any period in Gri...

The Houston Chronicle reported (Aug. 19) on a change in the law which received little publicity. Brian Rosenthal's story opened: Texa...

The Houston Chronicle's Leah Binkowitz has a story (Aug. 19) titled, " Bail reform urged after Sandra Bland death ." In it, Jo...

This quote jumped out at me from state Sen. John Whitmire, whose Criminal Justice Committee will investigate jail safety in the wake of the ...

Here's a good summary of the state of legal challenges asking the federal courts to require a warrant for cell-phone location data. T...

Having just returned from a much-needed and oft-interrupted two-week vacation, your correspondent today spent a little time perusing the new...

A pair of researchers from UT's Institute of Urban Policy Research and Analysis suggested in a Fort Worth Star-Telegram op ed  last week...