A former Harris County detention officer who switched departments just weeks after being caught on camera violently slamming a woman to the ground was able to secure a job at the Houston Police ...

Five inmates at the Central Maryland Correctional Facility in Sykesville have been convicted in two separate stabbings at the ...

Tabler — the second person executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April — was ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

A Texas police union jokingly called out a “tattling” driver who captured video of police officers doing donuts in a snow-covered parking lot — but the banter soon went “off the rails.” ...

Steve Sarkisian and the Texas Longhorns saw their season come up short once again, falling in the College Football Playoff semifinals for the second straight year. Arch Manning, the nephew of ...

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%.

A federal judge temporarily halted the transfer of a transgender inmate to a men’s prison under President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting gender-related accommodations in federal ...

Sweden can send criminals to serve their sentences in prisons abroad, a government-appointed commission said on Wednesday, as the country struggles to handle an influx of new inmates arising from ...

a striking photo of Manning rallying his teammates during drills made its rounds online. The image, shared on Texas Football's official social media account with the caption "Day one," quickly ...