Grits for Breakfast

Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: License renewals from abolished driver surcharges may exacerbate lin...

Last week, Grits posted an item about the Harris County probation department that included a critique of a Tweet touting a client who could...

The Dallas Morning News reported on a new staffing study for the Dallas Police Department prepared by KPMG. But the story is so focused on...

Why does Harris County DA Kim Ogg oppose the proposed bail-reform settlement in Houston? Let's dig into this bit by bit, starting with t...

Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Debtors Prison Blues Texas was one of five over-represented states ...

As part of reforms implemented with its MacArthur grant, Harris County consolidated all of its state jail cases into one district-court dock...

Police union politics in Texas could become even more radicalized now that the Houston Police Officers Union (HPOU) has joined forces with t...

Addicts leaving the county jail in San Antonio will now receive a dose of Narcan in case they overdose, the Express News reported . Overdose...

Since the local press has ignored the topic, let's delve a bit deeper into the pension crisis at the Austin Police Department. As Grits ...

One of the most important, least-covered stories in the Texas criminal-justice arena must be the failure of Texas municipalities to fund pol...

"Unchecked power" of and "conflict of interests" by local judges are the biggest barriers to reforming Texas' indige...

Two New York Times articles published over the weekend deserve readers' attention for their illumination of racist history that informs ...

Now that Keri Blakinger exists, along with the Marshall Project, The Appeal, Google News feeds, and a variety of advocacy newsletters that w...

Check out the August episode of the Reasonably Suspicious podcast. We've got a special treat this month, with Texas Monthly's Michae...

The Smith County Jail population is growing, reported the Tyler Morning Telegraph , and the main reason is that the county is disproportiona...

On the Reasonably Suspicious podcast this month, my co-host Amanda Marzullo and I discuss Marie Gottschalk's article about Texas justic...

There once was a county named Harris  Whose bail system left them embarrassed Then judges were sued And elections did lose So now l...

This seems self evidently awful, so rather than opine on the subject in prose, here's the short version of how I feel about this story :...

The Denton County Jail is suffering an "extreme staffing shortage," reported the Record Chronicle , although their 13 percent vaca...

Texas has botched its response to the opioid epidemic six ways from Sunday. First, Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill passed by the Texas Legi...