A Republican senator told his colleagues that public schools are serving a “different type of kid today than what there was ...

During the prisons-building boom three decades ago, lawmakers allowed private, for-profit corporations to compete for prisons ...

Dallas releases top candidates for a new police chief, with finalists undergoing interviews with city, community, and police ...

Texas’ prison population is projected to increase by about 10% over the next five years, according to the Legislative Budget Board, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice continues to ...

Texas senators look into allowing ‘abusive’ students to be arrested, expelled to jail and in some cases charged with ...

Texas teachers have made it clear that student behavior can be a problem. In a poll cited by the state’s 2023 Teacher Vacancy ...

Texas Christian University is ranked No. 6 out of 96 in Best Online Master's in Criminal Justice Programs. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted ...

The U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to an attorney, but fulfilling that promise has become increasingly difficult across rural Texas, where the number of criminal defense attorneys has ...

That system is not the norm in Texas, where 156 rural ... and director of the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. “People are spending time in ...

The announcement by El Paso County District Attorney James Montoya is a significant turn in the criminal case of Patrick ...

Dallas tapped the ... a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Tarleton State University and a Master of Arts in Public Affairs from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Harris County DA Sean Teare supports some of the bail reform proposals in the Legislature, but needs funding for holistic ...