Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

The feds are adding thousands of beds to hold families in Texas, which reportedly holds the most immigrants of any state at ...

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

Former North Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris has been indicted on five counts of lewd acts with a child. Here's ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Tyler Wakefield, 27, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a Collin County judge heard "chilling" testimony of his ...

A Longview man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for sexually abusing a child for 14 consecutive years. A jury in the ...

A Moody, Texas man who worked as a high school athletic trainer was sentenced in a federal court in Waco on March 13 to 84 ...

Robert Earl Cochran Jr., 63, of Alvin, received a 300-month federal prison sentence for distribution and possession of child ...

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

Commercial real estate professionals make ideal volunteer mentors for the Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program, ...