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Clear Grits: Texas Tough

As I focus elsewhere today, let me share a few links with y'all that have been backing up on my to-blog list:Deaf man could be next Texas exonereeThe next Dallas-based exoneree could turn out to be a deaf man convicted of sexual assault whose "confession came during 18 hours of questioning and included admissions to fictitious crimes made up by investigators to test his credibility." A fingerprint found at the crime scene matches another man convicted of sexually assaulting a child.Texas Tough I briefly got to meet Robert Perkinson last week, the author of the new book "Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire," who was in Austin for an Open Society Institute event. He was gracious enough to send me home with a signed copy, which I promise to review here later,  but in the meantime Ben Philpott at The Texas Tribune recorded an interview with him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).