The city’s Department of Correction says it will open the bidding process to any contractors who want to operate its jail commissary after a series of articles by THE CITY exposed high prices and poor ...

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

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

COLDSPRING, Texas — A man accused of killing five people in Texas in 2023 after a neighbor complained that he was keeping a baby awake by firing a gun in his yard late at night pleaded guilty ...

Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project. As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 inmates on ...

When you get a tip about a death or multiple deaths in your local jail or prison, there are concrete steps you can take to ...

The Texas prison system is making it easier and safer to handle court appearances. On Tuesday, the Department of Criminal ...

A Texas man who tried to scam disgraced former Rep. George Santos and other celebrities has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Hector Medina, who also used the alias “Michael Soto ...

A former Texas FBI employee was sentenced in a federal court in San Antonio to three months of home confinement and five ...

The founder of Sands Wall Systems went from nearly ruining his life to helping others, but the pain is still there. "He still ...

Additionally, in Texas, Georgia and Arkansas, prisoners are forced to work for free. Given the number of incarcerated individuals in the U.S., the private prison industry is in an opportune ...

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 ...