Brandi Grissom
The Dallas Morning News
Austin, TX, United States
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Texas inmates donate $53,000 to Hurricane Harvey relief
AUSTIN — More than 6,600 inmates have donated $53,863 from their commissary funds to help victims of Hurricane Harvey.Jason Clark, Texas... → Read More
A look inside Texas prisons damaged by Harvey, where workers and inmates are pitching in to clean up
ROSHARON — All Richard Babcock wanted was to get to work. As Harvey began its days-long soaking of Houston, he left the downtown Houston prison... → Read More
From dawn to dusk, Harvey requires relentless response from Gov. Greg Abbott
VICTORIA - Harvey cut a relentless path up the Texas coast, but not as relentless as the path Gov. Greg Abbott is traversing to help rebuild... → Read More
Gov. Greg Abbott gives special session mixed review, blames Speaker Straus for blocking agenda items
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Gov. Greg Abbott's top priority, property tax limits, fails as legislators end special session early
AUSTIN -- It appeared late Tuesday that lawmakers would end Gov. Greg Abbott's special session a day early, without passing his top priority, a... → Read More
Senate plods through one-third of Gov. Greg Abbott's special session agenda
AUSTIN — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and the Texas Senate Republicans gave an initial thumbs up to nearly one-third of Gov. Greg Abbott's special... → Read More
Lawmaker, restaurant: White nationalist group duped us
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Gov. Greg Abbott announced July 18 special session
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Gov. Greg Abbott coy on special session as lawmakers leave business unfinished
AUSTIN -- Gov. Greg Abbott said he will announce later this week whether he will order lawmakers back to the Capitol for a special legislative... → Read More
Gov. Abbott: Lawmakers must pass 'bathroom bill' and property tax relief
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Radio jingle tells lawmakers to take it easy on pot smokers
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How Texas avoided naming a stretch of highway after a murderer, instead of the state trooper he killed
AUSTIN -- Every legislative session, lawmakers write dozens of bills that name sections of highway after notable people who died in their... → Read More
Gov. Greg Abbott's hiring freeze leaves Texas watchdog agencies shorthanded
Incompetent nurses. Jail escapes. Investment swindlers.All are supposed to be investigated by state workers whose job is to protect the public.... → Read More
How to prevent wrongful convictions? Lawmakers get suggestions
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Advocates tell lawmakers to treat 17-year-olds like kids, not grown-ups
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Lawmakers urged to end executions of the mentally ill
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More than 70% of Texas prisons don't have AC. Here's why that won't change anytime soon.
It is officially swelter season in Texas, and for most of the 150,000 inmates in the state's sprawling prison system, it means another summer of seemingly endless months in cells where temperatures can climb north of 100 degrees. → Read More
After nearly 40 years, murder charges dropped against Kerry Max Cook in East Texas case
Updated at 12 p.m.: Revised to include additional details from the court hearing Monday, comment from lawyers familiar with Cook's case and comment from Dallas exoneree Billy Smith. TYLER – In… → Read More
Justice Don Willett, the boy from Talty, takes Twitter by storm, and maybe SCOTUS, too
AUSTIN – He’s been Twitter famous for a long time, but this week, Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett got a taste of real-life fame. When a gaggle of reporters… → Read More
Freed from death row, Anthony Graves uses compensation to help other inmates — including his best friend
HOUSTON – Nanon Williams expected to walk out of prison in 2010, just about the same time as his close friend and former death row mentor Anthony Graves. For the… → Read More