A father with five kids, Laya Freites, 33, has no criminal record in the United States, and his wife says he’s never been ...

Union leaders at the federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, are concerned for their future after President Donald Trump signed ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge's rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the ...

SACRAMENTO — A judge has initiated a federal court takeover of California’s troubled prison mental health system by naming the former head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to serve as receiver, giving ...

In January, President Trump issued an executive order calling for a pause on federal grants ... through in the next year,” University of Texas associate professor Kevin Clarno said.

Weatherford Police Department A Texas man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after torturing and killing cats at an animal shelter. Gabriel Skyler Caswell, 23, pleaded guilty to 12 ...

Experts warn that the development of new energy sources, like advanced nuclear reactors and cold fusion, could be facing delays as a result of budget cuts and defunding efforts in the federal ...

A man is going to prison after pleading guilty to dismembering ... “It didn’t matter if it was her last dollar or the shirt off her back, Kara would hand it off with a smile.” ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to federal women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s ...