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

Since 2010, The Texas Tribune has published information about Texas’ more than 100 prison units and the tens of thousands of people housed inside them. The data was provided by the Texas ...

A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...

Moreover, Texas could exceed bed capacity by the end ... Only about a third of its 100 prison units count with full AC, while ...

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

Texas prisons were so short staffed in 2023 the state spent more than $111,000 on rental cars for correctional officers to drive to far-flung rural facilities to cover temporary shifts that couldn ...

He was last seen wearing a white prison uniform ... into custody about three miles away from the Clemens Unit trusty camp in Angleton, Texas, where he was serving at. Robles will face felony ...

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

Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.

(The Texas Tribune) — The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate ...