Investigators suspect foul play in the disappearance of Caleb Harris, who was last seen in the early morning hours of March 4 ...

The latest Texas Department Of Criminal Justice news from The Texas Tribune. By Pooja Salhotra May 13, 2024 A handful of Texas jails have issued electronic tablets to inmates. Counties can make ...

DALLAS — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice denied an employee’s request to wear a religious head covering in violation of federal law, the U.S. Justice Department alleged in a lawsuit ...

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

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

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 ...

The Department of Justice sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Friday accusing the prison system of discriminating against its employee based on their religion. Credit: Martin do ...

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 ...

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

A top assassin for the Sinaloa drug cartel who was arrested by Mexican authorities last fall has been extradited to the U.S.

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