The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved a number of environmental regulations penalties Thursday, including for two violations at the Jefferson County Correctional Facility. The ...

Floyd Lee Coleman, 106, died at UAB Hospital Wednesday evening, according to the Jefferson County Coroner's Office. There were no signs of trauma or foul play.

The British government said criminals could earn earlier release under a new program to cut the prison population, citing ...

Joshua was incarcerated because of a series of offenses committed at age 11. First, he got into a fight with his older ...

State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt’s bill, SB 719, which aimed to study Texas’ mental health facilities and treatment system, failed ...

After reports of rampant abuse in youth prisons, lawmakers want more kids in adult prisons and seek to restrict watchdog ...

Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside ... the notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration ...

Fans hang in a hall's corner at the Louie C. Powledge Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men located in Anderson County, in 2021. (Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer) We have ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Texas Legislature have had years to correct a deficiency that renders a typical Texas prison into what a U.S. district judge likened to ...

Legislators are exploring ways to bring air conditioning to the state’s prison system, where only about a third of detainees have regular access to cool air. Under pressure from a federal ...

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 ...