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

A Texas woman was on death row for 27 years. But questions over a key witness could have her soon walking out of prison - ...

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

Abortion is legal in Texas only when the life of the mother or a “major bodily function” is at risk. Doctors, who could face ...

Terry Fountain, a former San Augustine County deputy accused of assaulting vulnerable women, received 10 years of probation ...

Deputies chased the woman for 14 miles on the wrong side of the highway before being pulled over on I-10 last June.

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 ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside ...

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

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside are dangerous to inmates and staff, according to an internal ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside are dangerous to inmates and staff, according to an internal ...