Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

A Texas man was sentenced to spend more than a decade in federal prison for a Morgantown drug trafficking operation.

A Texas man convicted of killing his girlfriend because she had an abortion has been sentenced to life in prison. Monday's ...

Gov. Greg Abbott, seeking about $11 billion to defray state spending on border security, didn’t come empty handed to ...

Understaffed and overcrowded, Texas prisons are experiencing worsening conditions that leave both staff and the incarcerated ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

An Austin man faces life in prison after being found guilty of dumping the body of a kidnapped woman in East Texas.

Andrew Taake was accused of attacking police officers with bear spray and a metal whip during the U.S. Capitol assault on Jan ...

The babysitter called the girl’s mother and said she had fallen out of a car seat and hit her head, according to court ...

Texas has a chronic problem with hiring and keeping enough guards in its prisons and state jails. Exacerbating the problem is that many of these facilities are in parts of the state where it is ...

Christian Rewoldt pleaded guilty to five counts of possession of child pornography, according to the Tarrant County District ...