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

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

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

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

Officials at an Anderson County prison say water service has been fixed after families of inmates raised concerns.

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 ...

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

: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice reported Tuesday morning that water and water pressure has been restored at the George Beto Unit state prison in Tennessee Colony near Palestine.

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