A federal lawsuit asserts that the Texas agency terminated a state prison clerk who refused to remove a head covering in line ...

The U.S. Justice Department lawsuit alleges that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice unfairly terminated an employee ...

Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said that tablets would “fundamentally change” ...

In a separate settlement, the city of Uvalde will pay $2 million to the families, create a permanent memorial to the victims ...

The Biden administration sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Friday, alleging the state agency discriminated against an employee after refusing to allow her to wear a head covering as ...

MORE: More than 10″ of rain has fallen north of I-10 this morning; Here’s the timeline of what to expect throughout the day ⛈️ The Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced Thursday ...

The families of 19 victims of the Uvalde, Texas, elementary ... to overhaul the Uvalde Police Department, including by ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's pardon of a convicted murderer of a Black Lives Matter protester injects a harmful dose of politics ...

The Texas Civil Rights Project alleges the Texas Department of Criminal Justice keeps inmates in higher-security housing units for much longer than the expected 10 years while some inmates live in ...

All three inmates were mentally ill and became dehydrated despite ready access to water. A woman with severe mental illness ...

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The man allegedly made multiple false entries in a governmental record, claiming he held a hearing for an 18-year-old that ...