Opinion: The cruelty of heat-related deaths inside Texas prisons is preventable but there is a solution. We just need the ...

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

A Texas man was sentenced to 24 months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, facing charges including felony ...

But according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the state’s prisons — only a third of which have air conditioning — were perfectly safe. Not only were there no heat-related deaths of ...

Gov. Greg Abbott has pardoned Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murder for killing Garrett Foster during a 2020 racial ...

Four nonprofits joined a federal lawsuit to protect people in Texas prisons from the heat. It's one of several attempts over the years to address this issue, but efforts haven't gotten much traction.

Prisoners stand in a crowded lunch line during a prison tour on June 18, 2015, at Elmore Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File) (CN) — Trenna Furrh will never forget the ...

Billy Chemirmir, suspected of smothering 22 elderly Texas women to death over a two year period, is the subject of a new docuseries "Pillowcase Murders." ...

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 ...

A Laredo woman has been sentenced to prison for impersonating a licensed nurse, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A 28-year-old man, Miguel Angel Trejo, has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in importing cocaine into the United ...

In an effort to assist pastoral ministry staff, educate facility staff, and create better access to Mass for inmates, the ...