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

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

He has been serving his sentence at Huntsville Unit, the oldest prison in Texas. Constructed 176 years ago, it is made mostly of red brick, and even though it is air-conditioned, temperatures ...

This comes after a day after TDCJ spokesperson Hannah Haney confirmed that the prison, located in Anderson County, has been ...

President Joe Biden (D) ended family detention in 2021, converting three facilities in Dilley and Karnes, Texas, and Berks ...

Two controversial immigration detention facilities in South Texas are being reopened for the detention and deportation of ...

The Trump administration is expected to use thousands more beds in these facilities as part of its mass deportation effort.

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

A private prison company has signed an agreement to reopen an immigrant detention facility in Texas that previously held ...

Prison health-care company Tehum Care Services Inc. won approval to exit bankruptcy with a personal injury settlement that ...