A Texas couple was sentenced to decades in prison for restraining a teen with ratchet straps and keeping her outside in ...

A traffic stop by Lake Worth police became a pursuit and standoff as an armed suspect fired at officers and threw fireworks ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott offered President Donald Trump land for more border wall, military bases to house federal authorities ...

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

Retention and recruitment issues aren’t unique to Tarrant County Jail, although other Texas facilities appear to be worse off, as the state's prisons operate with an officer vacancy rate of 70%.

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 ...

Andrew Taake, who pleaded guilty to attacking the police outside the Capitol, was just released from prison. He is being ...