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

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Mauricio Cruz appeared Jan. 31 in the 140th District Court and pleaded guilty to a count of sexual assault of a child.

Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...

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.

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 Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...