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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is ending protections that shielded roughly 350,000 Venezuelans from deportation, ...

The Texas Republican is a former federal prosecutor ... Former Florida senator Marco Rubio was confirmed earlier this week as secretary of state, the first member of Mr Trump’s Cabinet.

A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% staff turnover rate.

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

WASHINGTON - Texas Governor Greg Abbott and President Donald Trump will meet at the White House on Wednesday. The two are ...

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

(The Texas Tribune) — The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate ...

The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate rehabilitation programs ...

(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 ...