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Here are a few items that may interest Grits readers:The mounting crisis in indigent defenseAccording to Brandi Grissom at the Texas Tribune, "Texas is reaching a crisis point, putting itself at risk of a civil rights lawsuit ? or worse, a total meltdown of the criminal justice system ? because it so severely shortchanges the system designed to ensure impoverished accused criminals get adequate legal representation, advocates told a Senate committee last week."Strange TX bedfellows model unlikely alliance on criminal justice reformWrites Jessia Pupovac at the Crime Report, "Texas? experience has gone a long way towards convincing other states to take the political risk of criminal justice reform. The savings achieved by the abandonment of expensive new prison-building projects have converted Texas legislators into effective national champions for reform...continue to full post

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