People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system ...

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

A Texas Tribune analysis revealed that at least 41 people had died inside Texas prisons in 2023 during the state's ...

The Trump administration recently reinstated the practice of detaining immigrant adults and children together. Two detention ...

A Waco man is heading to prison for eight years after being found guilty of two child sex felonies in Bell County.

Investigators found credible evidence that she was illegally giving out controlled substances to at least one inmate.

The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...

Internal investigation reveals Texas prison employees falsified temperature logs to conceal dangerous conditions for inmates and staff.

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

The investigation, which homed in on recordkeeping at the Mark W. Stiles Unit in Beaumont over the summer of 2022, found ...

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

HAYS COUNTY, Texas - A man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering another man in Buda in 2022. According to Hays ...