Texas’ prison population is projected to increase by about 10% over the next five years, according to the Legislative Budget ...

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

Eduardo "Tablas" Ravelo, the reputed leader of the notorious Barrio Azteca border gang is extradited to El Paso from Mexico.

Prisoners in Texas can earn credits through working during the week and keeping a clean disciplinary record. Credits could earn earlier parole hearings via work, training and education under any ...

Texas’ youth prison system has long been entrenched in scandals. The agency was placed under a conservatorship in the early 2000s following repeated allegations of physical and sexual abuse of ...

Commercial real estate professionals make ideal volunteer mentors for the Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program, ...

Learn more about the crimes of serial killer Kenneth McDuff, as told in Oxygen's Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler.

Inmates have to earn their freedom through good behaviour at penitentiary the Justice Secretary sees as a model for UK ...