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Here are a few items that deserve Grits readers attention though I don't have time to fully write up each of them:Okies come to callLawmakers from Oklahoma including their Speaker of the House are in Austin today to discuss Texas' criminal justice reforms aimed at reducing prison population growth. They'll be meeting with Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, state Sen. John Whitmire, state Rep. Jerry Madden, and Adam Gelb from the Pew Center on the States this afternoon, Gelb informed me this morning.Not now, probably not everI agree for the most part with Michael Landauer's assessment that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' ruling shutting down Houston Judge Kevin Fine's hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty was arguably the right one...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 13, 2011 (boomark / email).