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 ...

Garza County Commissioners have narrowed down their options for the future of the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility.

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 ...

The justices left in place a Texas appeals court ruling that upheld the murder conviction and death sentence for Areli ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside ...

Defense attorney Heath Harris forcefully rejected a Dallas County DA motion seeking to disqualify him from representing Texas Seven death row inmate Randy Halprin.

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

Two men charged after 53 immigrants died in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning have been found ...