The executive director of the Texas prison system reported to his governing board at a meeting in Bryan that the recently ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

Friday marks the third anniversary of one of the deadliest human smuggling operations in history, which occurred in San ...

Karmelo Anthony, the now 18-year-old accused of fatally stabbing another teen during an altercation at a Frisco ISD track ...

Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzales-Ortega were the first of several defendants to be sentenced for what remains the ...

Two smugglers convicted of federal charges in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found in the back of a sweltering ...

Prison guards and staff members also continue to fall ill from heat exposure, and the system struggled with a turnover rate of 26% in 2023, one of the hottest years in recent Texas history.

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system ...