Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S.

Two thirds of people incarcerated in Texas’ prisons face another summer without air conditioning after lawmakers again declined to pass legislation that would mandate a timeline for installing climate ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year thanks to a legislative funding allocation, according to an email TDCJ ...

Investigators found 27 videos of the former Marine engaging in sexual activity with the child, which started when the child was 3 years old.

The families of Jon Southards, Elizabeth Hagerty and John Skinner are suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in connection with their loved ones' deaths.

Families sue Texas over inmate deaths in sweltering prisons The inmates died during a heat wave in 2023.

A Texas man was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole, officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A man accused of giving a sexually transmitted disease to a 3-year-old girl will now spend ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is facing more legal action over sweltering conditions in state prisons. The families of three inmates who died in 2023 are suing ...

Federal prison sentences are handed down to three U.S. Army soldiers in a migrant border smuggling case in West Texas.