Waking Up in Texas Will Still Take Some Doing

Grits for Breakfast displays some GREAT new thinking (editorializing) coming from a great big state of Texas. Are the brains (not hearts) going to win, finally? Hearts, in this case, might be at the root of the brains! Hard to believe, and so, believe this when you see it.

The guys don't want to build more prisons until they see who's in there and why.

Sen. John Whitmire of Houston, who is chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, put it mildly when he told Ward: "It appears we're probably wasting millions of dollars filling up beds with people who don't need to be there."