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

STRIVE graduate Melyna Rodriguez wipes a tear during the graduation ceremony inside the chapel at the Patrick O'Daniel Unit ... to prison compared to 9.7% of all incarcerated Texas women ...

Jacolby Shawn Smith-Barber was taken into custody on Feb. 6 on a charge of prohibited substance in a correctional facility.

Hughes Unit in Coryell ... from the Texas Attorney General’s Office.(iStock / Getty Images/iStockphoto) A leader of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist prison gang, has died ...

A Texas man was sentenced to prison in connection with the murder of 25-year-old Jasmine Muldoon. Screengrab from Patricia Jo's Facebook page. A Texas man was sentenced to prison after agreeing to ...

On Monday, a Texas judge sentenced Dallas man Harold Thompson to life in prison. Thompson’s sentencing comes after a jury convicted him of killing his partner, Gabriela Gonzalez, for having an ...

The Bureau of Prisons confirmed it is holding some people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown, though it has not disclosed how many or where. Federal jails in Los Angeles, Miami ...

My understanding of life in prison comes purely from the big screen — movies like The Shawshank Redemption or the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. I am very thankful that this is the ...

Dozens of inmates are crammed into cells in the prisons in the Central American country. Sentences range from 60 to more than 1,000 years for those incarcerated at Terrorism Confinement Centre ...