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

DALLAS – January often inspires many people to pursue passions in the New Year. Darren Wallace shows that age shouldn't stop dreams from becoming a reality. At 54 years old, he is in his second ...

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 prisons were so short staffed in 2023 the state spent more than $111,000 on rental cars for correctional officers to drive to far-flung rural facilities to cover temporary shifts that couldn ...

A Honduran national has been sentenced to over 21 years in federal prison for leading a drug trafficking organization while ...

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 ...

Languages: English Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project. As of January 1, 2025 ...

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It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated ...