Criminal Justice
Raising the Bars
Experts: When It Comes to Childhood Mental Illness, Texas Isn’t Treating Its Kids
Experts say Texas must increase funding for kids' mental health treatment to ensure integrated care that keeps them out of the juvenile justice system....Read More
Austin Poised to ‘Ban the Box’
The City Council is expected to approve a jobs ordinance that will push conversations about felony convictions later in the hiring process.
The City Council is expected to approve a jobs ordinance that will push conversations about felony convictions later in the hiring process....Read More
Will Texas Turn Green? Pot Panelists Say the State Is Ready
At SXSW, advocates say Texas lawmakers could add some financial cushioning to the budget by legalizing — and taxing — marijuana.
At SXSW, advocates say Texas lawmakers could add some financial cushioning to the budget by legalizing — and taxing — marijuana....Read More
New Technologies Connect Prisoners to the Outside World
'Returning citizens' develop apps and initiatives to reduce recidivism.
'Returning citizens' have developed apps for inmates and families, but other new tech may be more about corporate bottom lines than reducing recidivism....Read More
The First Time Texas Killed One of My Clients
An attorney pieces together a life cut short.
A death row attorney recalls what it was like to piece together a life cut short by poverty, racial inequality and capital punishment....Read More
Observatory Podcast No. 3: Mr. Eubanks
Roy Eubanks' neighbors thought he was a harmless, yarn-spinning old so-and-so. Nobody realized he had a violent past — until a young woman turned up dead.
When neighbors in Mineola heard that Roy Eubanks was a violent criminal running from the law, many were ready to forgive the man they thought they'd known for s...Read More
State of Black Austin Tied to Swiftly Gentrifying East Austin
Organizers of the second-annual State of Black Austin event say the city can't confront gentrification without confronting historic racial marginalization....Read More
Right-Wing Austin Institute’s ‘Frank and Fearless’ Take on Rape: Women, ‘Be Safe’
If you’ve got something important to do, such as take care of your own mental health, the upshot was this: Sex is risky, rape is bad, drinking! and women shou...Read More
No Place for Old Men
Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill — at enormous expense.
Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill — at enormous expense....Read More