Edward Wayne Rene, a former assistant dean of admissions at Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law, ...

House Bill 3006 would require the installation of climate control in state prison facilities by 2032. About two-thirds of Texas’ prison inmates reside in facilities ...

The Tarrant County District Attorney’s interpretation of a state law mandating independent investigations of deaths in county jails would “gut” the statute, according to professors at the ...

Cristian Benitez. Aggravated sexual assault of a child. Guilty plea. 13 years Texas Department of Corrections. Donovan Espinoza. Possession of a controlled substance. Dismissed. Pleaded guilty to ...

Body camera footage from the Huntsville Police Department in Texas shows the moment two New Orleans escapees were captured.

Jeanette Vizguerra recently spoke to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa in a rare ...

A corrections officer with the Hays County ... after he had resigned from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice while under investigation for actions during his time as an officer at Travis ...

Records also show he was convicted on the charge and sentenced to 180 days in the Texas Department of Corrections. However, he was Carson had also been previously arrested for DWI in California in ...

Police say one of the New Orleans jail escapees who was captured on Monday was found with the help of an anonymous tip from a ...

A report from nonprofit news organization Floodlight looks at the local battles over cool roofs are heating up.