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

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.

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

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

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

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

Darren Tremaine Jackson, 41, was sentenced to 260 months in federal prison for meth trafficking in East Texas. A traffic stop ...

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

Texas is one of 13 states that does not require air conditioning in its state prisons, but a new bill that would enforce humane treatment for the incarcerated has been filed for this legislative ...

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, ...