Grits for Breakfast
This blawg covers "the political, economic and social consequences of crime, punishment and justice in the Lone Star State, from police searches at traffic stops to the county jail, the courts, the prison system, community supervision, and everything they influence. Welcome to Texas justice: You might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride."
Author: Scott Henson is a freelance political consultant in Austin, Texas. Among his clients is the Innocence Project of Texas.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Death Penalty • Legislation & Lobbying • States • Texas • Consultant
Recent Posts from Grits for Breakfast
- US Sentencing Commission hears testimony on alternatives to incarceration, reentry
- Out for the morning: Sentencing coverage to come
- Should prosectuors, public defenders, cops be required to 'resign to run'?
- Medication lapse for Harris jail inmates especially long for patients with HIV
- ACLU: CCA ignored evidence of false confession in capital case
- Florida looking to Texas for overincarceration solutions
- Nueces looks to GPS for supervising work-release offenders
- Federal Sentencing Commission to hold regional hearing this week in Austin
- DPS to parents: Your kid could become a Mexican cartel assassin if you don't watch out
- Does rise in white-collar prosecutions stem from too-weak business regulation?