During the prisons-building boom three decades ago, lawmakers allowed private, for-profit corporations to compete for prisons ...

The investigation was ordered by federal judge hearing a case on whether heat in Texas prisons qualifies as cruel and unusual ...

Texas prosecutors failed to pursue almost half of the nearly 400 cases that the prison system’s inspector general referred to them. Of the 126 workers — mostly guards — who were convicted, only nine ...

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

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

Private prison company GEO Group sued the state comptroller in 2017, arguing the company's purchases qualified for an ...

Gang member George Gomez sentenced to 300 months in federal prison for coordinating drug trafficking from state prison.

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