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

The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...

(iStock / Getty Images/iStockphoto) A leader of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist prison gang, has died in state prison almost 10 years after he was convicted at a trial in ...

The Council of State Governments estimated in a 2024 report that Texas will spend $369 million to reincarcerate people who were released from its prisons in 2022. To avert those costs, the council ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

On Monday, a Texas ... the state made her abortion more difficult to conceal, producing a deadly outcome. On Monday, a Texas judge sentenced Dallas man Harold Thompson to life in prison.

Mike Wilson, aims to prevent the Department of Corrections from funding gender transition care for inmates. While Kentucky's Attorney General determined the state isn't obligated to provide such ...

During an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper late Wednesday, Abbott said he told Trump, “We have identified about 4,000 prison beds in the state of Texas that can be used by the Trump ...

A traffic stop by Lake Worth police became a pursuit and standoff as an armed suspect fired at officers and threw fireworks before he was fatally shot by a Fort Worth police SWAT officer.

And it’s a story of organizing across racial lines.” As title cards inform viewers at the start of the film, Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit once held hundreds of inmates ...