Texas has put more prisoners in solitary confinement for three years or longer than every other state and the federal ...

Discover the consequences of crime in Texas as two men face execution for their atrocities. Read about the accountability ...

researchers and inmates’ families dispute those statistics. A 2022 study found that 14 prison deaths per year were associated with heat. Last year, a Texas Tribune analysis found that at least ...

Unlike prisons, which house convicted Texas felons, the majority of people in county jails are being held pre-trial, meaning they have not yet been convicted of the crime they were arrested for.

Furrh was part of a broad coalition hoping and pushing for new limits on dangerous heat in Texas prisons. There are currently no rules regulating extreme heat in these facilities, where temperatures ...

Several years ago, Damascus James started exchanging letters with people in Texas prisons. That evolved into a project called Texas Letters, a collection of letters written by people living in ...

Daniel Perry was released from a Texas prison about an hour after Governor Greg Abbott pardoned him for killing a Black Lives Matter protestor dead during the 2020 riots. Perry was convicted ...

He was killed in a Texas prison by a cellmate in 2023, officials said. Over a two-year span, authorities said Chemirmir used his work as a caregiver to prey on elderly women in the Dallas area ...

In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison ...