The list of appointments was posted less than a month after the Star-Telegram found the Texas Commission on Jail Standards ...

Jail deaths were not independently investigated by Fort Worth police, records show. A potential loophole in Texas law made ...

Officials in Maverick County openly acknowledge that poor defendants accused of minor crimes are rarely provided lawyers. And ...

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