A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% staff turnover rate.
Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s bill for hotels and travel meals that year came to nearly $14 million – double what it was the year before. The corrections agency even had names for ...
The Texas Legislature should give great weight to a series of recommendations aimed at improving the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Among them is ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two area corrections officers were arrested last week in separate incidents where ...
Steven Nelson, a 37-year-old convicted killer, became the first person executed in Texas in 2025. Nelson was put to death by lethal injection for ...
A Texas corrections officer was killed after he was attacked by an inmate, according to state authorities. Isaiah Bias, 28, was working at the Ellis County Detention Center Monday when he was ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended a 20-year-old Guatemalan man, Gener Pop-Cuz, after the Prince ...