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

Republican lawmakers announced that the budget will fund the planning process to shut down the struggling Green Bay prison by ...

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

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

Data shows that migrants at some detention centers in the Houston area are being held, on average, more than twice as long ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Prisons’ new deputy director’s past incarceration has drawn outrage from some officers — and support from ...

Between January 2023 and December 2024, Texas jails reported 287 deaths. In all 60 cases reviewed by auditors, the commission was notified within 24 hours and assigned an outside agency to ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday requested a new execution date for Robert Roberson, the East Texas man whose execution was delayed last year after h ...