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 ...

Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project. As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 inmates on ...

A Texas man who tried to scam disgraced former Rep. George Santos and other celebrities has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Hector Medina, who also used the alias “Michael Soto ...

COLDSPRING, Texas — A man accused of killing five people in Texas in 2023 after a neighbor complained that he was keeping a baby awake by firing a gun in his yard late at night pleaded guilty ...

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

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - BREAKING ... The jury sentenced Garcia to life in prison and ordered her to pay a $10,000 fine on count 1. Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay ...

Disturbing new statistics released by a Texas state agency revealed that more than 100 children aged 17 and younger – including some as young as 11 – traveled out of state to receive abortions ...

Disturbing new statistics released by a Texas state agency revealed that more than 100 children aged 17 and younger – including some as young as 11 – traveled out of state to receive abortions in 2023 ...

Additionally, in Texas, Georgia and Arkansas, prisoners are forced to work for free. Given the number of incarcerated individuals in the U.S., the private prison industry is in an opportune ...

President Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to build a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to house deported ...