Texas prisons and jails are recruiting more teenagers to shore up guard shortage
Two counties house training programs in local high schools as officials pitch corrections jobs as gateways to criminal ...
Texas prison inmates swelter amid persistent guard staffing shortages, critics say
Prisoners and reform advocates say persistent staffing shortages has left many state prison without enough guards to mitigate ...
Texas man sentenced to prison for embezzling from Norfolk transit company
The former manager of Norfolk's North Fork Area Transit was sentenced to prison after being found guilty of embezzling more ...
Hundreds of Harris County inmates to be moved from closing west Texas private jail to Louisiana
The impending closure of the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility in Garza County has Harris County making plans to move ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designates Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as terrorist organization
Gov. Greg Abbott and state officials labeled the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as a "foreign terrorist organization," ...
Texas man sentenced to 40 months in prison for kicking cat like a 'football field goal'
A Beaumont man has been sentenced to 40 months in federal prison for animal crushing after kicking a cat in a video posted on ...
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Texas’ prison guard shortfall makes it harder for inmates to get reprieve from extreme indoor heat, critics say
Attorneys for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice who are trying to dissuade a federal judge from forcing the state to cool its un-air conditioned prisons argue in an ongoing lawsuit that the ...
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Shortage of Texas prison guards makes it harder for inmates to cool down in overheated prisons, critics say
Attorneys for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice who are trying to dissuade a federal judge from forcing the state to cool its un-air conditioned prisons argue in an ongoing lawsuit that the ...