The Texas prison system is making it easier and safer to handle court appearances. On Tuesday, the Department of Criminal ...

Understaffed and overcrowded, Texas prisons are experiencing worsening conditions that leave both staff and the incarcerated ...

The Texas Legislature should give great weight to a series of recommendations aimed at improving the Texas Department of ...

But Collier added the Texas corrections system also had created its own hiring obstacles. In the 1990s, when the state’s prison population was climbing rapidly, the agency went on a building spree.

A recent interview with Michelle Pitcher of the Texas Observer about living conditions and forced labor in the TDCJ, the ...

Wallace retired after working within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice ... Scratches on his worn name tag reflect the callousness of the prison system. Wallace saw through the bars and ...

A West Texas man will spend years in prison for organizing a smuggling operation involving thousands of illegal immigrants.

It's not the most typical classroom, but University of North Texas criminal justice students said that sharing a class with ...

is up for parole in Texas. The Washington Post reported this is Saldivar’s first opportunity for release. Saldivar, who was the president of Selena’s fan club, was sentenced to life in prison ...