The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, ...

In the late summer of 2023, Jeremy Busby was brutally attacked by a cellmate in the Texas prison where he was being held ... from his windowless solitary-confinement cell at a prison facility in ...

A man accused of killing Joel Osteen's great-aunt waited almost two decades in the Harris County Jail without a trial.

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of ... told USA TODAY on Feb. 26 during an interview at a Texas state prison north of Houston. “How can I not be angry at the corruption ...

The investigation was ordered by federal judge hearing a case on whether heat in Texas prisons qualifies as cruel and unusual ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

BEAUMONT, Texas — Staff with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) falsified records about how hot it got in at least one Texas prison ... the Estelle Unit in Huntsville.

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside are dangerous to inmates and staff, according to an internal ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Staff with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) falsified records about how hot it got in at least one Texas prison ... the Estelle Unit in Huntsville.