Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu criticized the department for treating an August 2024 federal report as “nothing.” ...

Since the program began in the TDCJ system in 2022, it has expanded to 15 prisons, recently including the Sanders Estes facility near Midlothian.

according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website. In Texas, from 1819 to 1923, people in Texas were put to death by hanging. In 1923, according to the Texas Department of Criminal ...

Defendants who picked up more charges while being arrested for Jan. 6 argue that Trump’s pardon extends to those too. The ...

According to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, in 2023, it experienced the worst staffing crisis in its history.

Drexel University's Department of Criminology and Justice Studies empowers students to address these and other issues of crime and justice policy. What is criminal justice studies — and what’s the ...

Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock asked for higher judicial pay and protections for parents in child custody cases in his first State of the Judiciary address since Gov. Greg Abbott appointed him to the ...

Aaron Calvert, a 20-year-old from Henderson County, was sentenced to 20 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for ...