During the prisons-building boom three decades ago, lawmakers allowed private, for-profit corporations to compete for prisons ...
Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.
A hazmat situation unfolded at a high-rise apartment building in downtown Houston on Friday, but police say no evidence of a ...
HOUSTON — A Houston woman who was caught smuggling ... Maldonado was sentenced to three years in federal prison which will be immediately followed by three years of supervised release.
A Houston-area midwife has been arrested on allegations she performed illegal abortions, the first criminal charges brought ...
Read full article: Spring has sprung in Houston ... Videos Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and prisons ...