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

A Senate bill filed Friday does not expand abortion access, but aims to give doctors clarity while operating under laws that ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The man admitted to recording himself having sex with a 16-year-old girl. When police searched his phone, though, they found ...

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

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