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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 ...

Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

House Speaker Dustin Burrows today (Thursday) released his list of committee appointments, with Wharton being named to the corrections and insurance committees. The committee on corrections has ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two area corrections officers were arrested last week in separate incidents where ...

Garza County leaders have invested millions of dollars into the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility, hoping it will bring them a contract.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended a 20-year-old Guatemalan man, Gener Pop-Cuz, after the Prince ...