The violence against women stops today,” the judge told a man sentenced to 75 years for a brutal attack on his girlfriend.

A former elementary school teacher in the Judson Independent School District was sentenced Thursday to 60 years in prison for ...

A Colorado man received a 20-year prison sentence for selling fentanyl that resulted in a Texas man's overdose death. Douglas Christopher Steele, 54, pleaded guilty to distribution of a controlled ...

Benjamin McGuire, the first inmate to die in the Travis County Jail this year, was deemed mentally incompetent and was ...

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

An inmate at the federal prison in Beaumont with a long criminal history in Wichita Falls has died from injuries after a fight with other inmates.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The crisis in Ecuador’s prisons has escaped the confines of the penitentiary system to sow violence, corruption, and chaos around the country. The political assassinations, terrorist-style attacks, ...

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