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Some weeks, the work doesn't leave much room for writing about the work. This is one of those weeks. The clients are real. The cases are moving. Court dates, phone calls, files that don't stop growing — this is the rhythm of indigent defense. You show up because someone has to. You keep moving because… Continue reading A Brief Pause from the Trenches

When Mental Illness Meets Blackness Behind Bars When I wrote through January, I kept coming back to the same truth: so many of the in‑custody deaths we see begin long before anyone steps into a jail. They start with untreated mental illness, with crises that get met by police instead of clinicians, with families calling… Continue reading Treatment Denied, Arrest Delivered

That’s Harris County Jail in a nutshell. The inspections, the deaths, the repeated failures — all documented in public records — and yet the system continues to operate below the minimum standard for human safety. This isn’t a system struggling.This is a system refusing to meet the bare minimum required to keep people alive.This is… Continue reading Documented. Repeated. Ignored.