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

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

Multiple agencies, including the Office of Inspector General, Beeville Police Department, Bee County Sheriff’s Office, DPS and TDCJ collaborated on a planned operation to intercept the ...

This does not include prisoners who escaped from a TDCJ prison. ABC13 also noted that the state did not include three local incidents last year. Daniel Douglas who escaped from a parking garage ...

ABILENE, Texas — An inmate has recently transformed the visitation area at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice French Robertson Unit in Abilene ... 2017 around the prison to bring different ...

Two suspects are in custody after attempting to bring contraband, including methamphetamines, cell phones and tobacco into the McConnell Unit in Bee County using drones, TDCJ confirmed.

The report found that low staffing figures put both prison staff and inmates at risk. In response, the commission is asking that the TDCJ “identify root causes of turnover” and improve ...

DALLAS – January often inspires many people to pursue passions in the New Year. Darren Wallace shows that age shouldn't stop dreams from becoming a reality. At 54 years old, he is in his second ...

Texas will put to death on Wednesday a man convicted of the brutal 2011 killing of a Dallas-area pastor in his own church ...

Hobby Unit in Marlin, Texas. Daniel Lopez is at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and Kimberly Dunkin ... Leroy Schmitz is at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana, and Kevin Saxon ...