Jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court deliberated about 90 minutes before convicting Jayson R. Hilliard on the first-degree felony charge.

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

BEAUMONT, Texas — A Liberty County correctional officer is facing a third degree felony charge after being accused of ...

Burak Ünveren, a broadcast journalist visiting from Germany, is leaving East Texas with a fresh perspective on local journalism and daily life in the United States. He joined East Texas Now to discuss ...

For high school students interested in fields in criminal justice, this district’s program gives them the opportunity to ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge's rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ordering a fix before summer in what has become of the country's biggest ...

Court records show the man was found guilty on six counts of possession of child pornography and a charge of invasive visual ...

A former correctional officer at the Colorado County Correctional Facility has been arrested following an investigation into ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A federal grand jury in South Texas has indicted 10 Mexican nationals and two men from Guatemala on charges of assaulting two correctional officers, U.S ...

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