Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

More than 80,000 Texas prisoners live in facilities that lack air conditioning. They have former state senator and Houston ...

A prison sentence has been issued in the 2022 killing of a San Antonio teen over a THC cartridge. The deceased teen was the ...

A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to ...

The Wise County Sheriff’s Office began investigating the murders after concerned family members reported they had not seen ...

Some temperatures logged by prison employees were far off the ... is currently serving a 99-year sentence for murdering an 81-year-old widow in East Texas. His crime was immortalized in director ...

Nearly two months after accepting a plea deal, a 20-year-old man learned his prison sentence on Wednesday inside a tense ...

Trial evidence revealed the sexual abuse against the victim began when she was only 5 years old and continued until she was 8 years old, officials said.

Police are seeking information about a 17-year-old girl who went missing in Pontiac ... FILE - Advocates for cooling Texas prisons construct a makeshift cell before a rally on the steps of ...

Cory Grado was sentenced to 17 years in prison for a sexual assault conviction and a maximum sentence of two years in state ...

including “a 90-year-old with hypertension” and someone who has a seizure disorder. Only about 10% of Texas prison inmates have a heat score, even though all of the roughly 134,500 people inca ...