Friday, February 13, 2015

Grits for Breakfast: Texas saw 615 deaths in custody statewide in 2014;...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas saw 615 deaths in custody statewide in 2014;...: Because the MSM covers the death penalty so closely, one frequently sees headlines like this one - " Texas inmate set to die Wednesday ...

Grits for Breakfast: Draft budgets short shrift prisoner health care

Grits for Breakfast: Draft budgets short shrift prisoner health care: Hard to avoid a sense of déjà vu when checking in on proposed funding levels for prisoner health care in the first-cut budget for the Texas ...

Grits for Breakfast: More inmates in solitary confinement in Texas than...

Grits for Breakfast: More inmates in solitary confinement in Texas than...: Check out a new report from ACLU of Texas and the Texas Civil Rights Project assessing the state's use of solitary confinement. Chuck L...

Grits for Breakfast: Harris DA: Delay pleas on drug cases till lab resu...

Grits for Breakfast: Harris DA: Delay pleas on drug cases till lab resu...: Reacting to numerous drug cases where defendants pled guilty to get out of jail and crime labs later returned results saying they'd neve...