A Texas woman was on death row for 27 years. But questions over a key witness could have her soon walking out of prison - ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside ...

A 45-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been sentenced for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine ...

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

The investigation was ordered by federal judge hearing a case on whether heat in Texas prisons qualifies as cruel and unusual ...

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

“I’m accused of killing six people when an entire police force couldn’t find a single shred of evidence of anything,” Wood told USA TODAY on Feb. 26 during an interview at a Texas state prison north ...

Gang member George Gomez sentenced to 300 months in federal prison for coordinating drug trafficking from state prison.

The arrest appears to be the first time a health care provider in Texas has been criminally charged under the state’s ...

The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited ...