The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...

A 45-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been sentenced for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine ...

Mexican national Adrian Olan-Peralta was sentenced to 14 months in prison for assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent during an ...

The Jim Hogg County booking facility was opened in 2022 as part of the governor's own border control operation.

Gang member George Gomez sentenced to 300 months in federal prison for coordinating drug trafficking from state prison.

A Texas sheriff says Mexican cartel members are “running scared” and fearful of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo ... O'Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that houses females on death row, among other inmates. Texas leads the country in executions and is among the top ...

A former tax preparer from Mansfield is headed to federal prison and must repay more than $10 million after pleading guilty ...

Cameron Darrick Peterson, 20, pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and was sentenced to 6½ years in federal prison, officials ...

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