ALABAMA - For a few months now, Texas' prison system has been under the spotlight as it struggles to keep inmates safe amid ...

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 ...

And a Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson declined to answer questions on how and when the vaccine would be distributed in the state prison system, referring questions to the ...

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 ...

After an investigation found that toothless inmates in Texas were rarely offered adequate care, the prison system has pledged to change its ways with some cutting-edge technology.

Estelle, in 1972 over dangerous and degrading living and working conditions, he set in motion a decades long process of dramatic change--if not outright transformation--in the Texas prison system. In ...