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 ...

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

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

Two men were convicted of human smuggling that killed 53 people in an overheated tractor-trailer, in deadliest migrant ...

A Texas man found guilty of killing his daughter’s boyfriend has been sentenced to life in prison, officials say and news outlets report. Larry Gene Hernandez, 45, of San Antonio, was accused of ...

Chance Zane Chavez, 34, faces murder charges after he allegedly killed his wife, Kristen Chavez, with a clothing iron in ...

The feds are adding thousands of beds to hold families in Texas, which reportedly holds the most immigrants of any state at ...

A man in the custody of Dallas County Jail and a man in the custody of Irving ... The Irving Internal Affairs will also conduct an internal review. The Texas Attorney General’s Office was ...