This invited written testimony regarding interim charges relating to state jails, technology in the criminal justice system, and offender reentry was presented before the Texas House Corrections Committee on August 21, 2008.
In a two-tiered justice system, ordinary families suffer
The courthouse is a very bleak house, indeed. Injustice makes it so—especially when it’s justice for some, but not for all. One judge I know says she looks forward to the adoptions she officiates: “An adoption is just about the only time people come to the courthouse and everyone leaves happy,” she told me. “For...