The Texas Legislature should give great weight to a series of recommendations aimed at improving the Texas Department of ...

Understaffed and overcrowded, Texas prisons are experiencing worsening conditions that leave both staff and the incarcerated ...

A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...

TYLER, Texas (KETK) – On Tuesday ... which resulted in Clark being sentenced to federal and state prison. Due to Clarks prior convictions, the state filed a notice of enhancement forcing Clark to be ...

CONTINUES. AND NEW AT SIX. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CAMP HILL STATE PRISON SAYS AN INMATE DIED AFTER AN ASSAULT BY ANOTHER INMATE IN A RECREATION YARD. 35 YEAR OLD SPENCER CASTLE DIED THIS MORNING.

BASTROP, Texas — Two men who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol have been released from federal prison in Bastrop. It comes after President Donald Trump issued a pardon ...

Grider, a Central Texas vineyard owner who claims the government misinterpreted his intentions after he entered the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to just less than seven years in prison on May 23 ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - BREAKING ... The jury sentenced Garcia to life in prison and ordered her to pay a $10,000 fine on count 1. Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay ...

(The Texas Tribune) — The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate ...

ATLANTA — State prisons chief Tyrone Oliver asked Georgia lawmakers Monday for $10.4 million to hire an additional 330 correctional officers during this fiscal year to staff a prisons system the ...