AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s staffing shortages harm the safety of staff, inmates, and the ...

Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and ...

Texas Seven prison escapee Randy Halprin will get a new trial in Dallas County because the judge at his 2003 capital murder ...

A Comal County jury sentenced Joseph Haren, 71, to life in prison for DWI with two or more previous convictions for the same ...

A 74-year-old East Texas man has been sentenced to 15 years in state prison after a 2020 murder in Winnsboro. Visit this ...

Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving ...

Texans serving time for misdemeanor offenses or who are in jail awaiting trial are eligible to vote but only two counties ...

GEO Group owns 11 private prisons across Texas, and the facilities at issue are mostly ICE detention centers. Its argument ...

Texas death row inmate Randy Halprin, who was once part of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners, is being granted a new ...

Many men at the Miami-Dade Correctional Institute, an aging complex lacking air conditioning in housing areas, suffered from ...

Doctors in Texas potentially face huge fines, life in prison and losing their license because of the state's strict abortion ...

The threat of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is becoming more apparent in Texas as more crime-related incidents tied to the ...