Supporters argue changes are critical to ensure public safety. Critics say they risk violating constitutional rights, ...

The Harris County Sheriff's Office outsources the housing of roughly 1,300 inmates in out-of-state private facilities in Louisiana and Mississippi.

A new execution date has been set for a man on death row convicted in the December 2008 death of his girlfriend’s child in ...

"Even if we're a little anxious, we're going to step into this, because Jesus … wants to liberate the captive and visit those ...

Missing case files have stalled a decision on whether to retry Joe David Padron for a 2002 double murder, more than two ...

Blaine Keith Milam, 35, was sentenced to death for the December 2008 killing of 13-month-old Amora Bain Carson. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has his execution scheduled for Sep. 25. Milam ...

In January 1934, they attacked the Eastham Prison Farm in Texas to help Hamilton break out of jail, shooting several guards with machine guns and killing one. Texan prison officials hired a retired ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas prisons could be fully air conditioned within the next decade if a newly proposed bill becomes law. House Bill 3006, which passed the House Corrections Committee ...

But U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s warnings to Texas to act after finding the conditions in the prison system unconstitutional could resonate elsewhere in the U.S. where similar challenges ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could ...

“Every time something would happen, [police] would pull me in,” Wood told the Texas Observer ... men from his time at the Eastham Unit, a sprawling men’s prison in Houston County since ...

In 1989, Hall was serving 45 years for murder and was housed at the Eastham Unit in Lovelady, Texas, when he found himself in a cell near Wood for a few months. Wood was in prison for a sexual assault ...