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 ...

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

More than 451,000 criminal noncitizens have been arrested and booked into local Texas jails over the past 14 years, according ...

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

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

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

Some of the coins were valued between $141,000 and $240,000 in 2022, according to the Williamson County District Attorney.

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 ...