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

Authorities call it a successful round up of child sex offenders, but it also shows how widespread the crime is in North Texas.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 the death chambers of the Mississippi Delta, on a rainy night in an Indiana penitentiary, and in the early hours at an ...

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

After being sentenced to a seven-year prison term in January for possession of child pornography, a Harker Heights man saw ...

Valerian O’Steen is accused of killing Marissa Grimes, whose body was found in a crawl space underneath his house in Fort ...

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, ...