Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

Lucio Catarino Diaz, 52, was sentence to six years Tuesday after infecting at least 13 women with herpes and hepatitis A at a ...

Kwaneta Harris is an incarcerated journalist from Texas. She is a member of the mentorship program Empowerment Avenue, which ...

The investigation was ordered by federal judge hearing a case on whether heat in Texas prisons qualifies as cruel and unusual ...

There was a battle in a Dallas County courtroom on Friday over documents not given to defense attorneys for the new trial of ...

Surveillance footage revealed at trial showed the man stomping on kittens, smashing their heads and necks, and throwing them ...

A Texas man faces 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to a dozen counts of animal cruelty. The 23-year-old was captured ...

Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

Gabriel Skyler Caswell, 23, was a full-time employee of the Weatherford Parker County Animal Shelter when the abuse occurred.

A 45-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been sentenced for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine ...

The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...