Five staff members from the George Beto Unit state prison near Tennessee Colony have been relieved of duty after a recent ...

House Bill 900, also known as the READER Act, was passed by the Texas Legislature in 2023 to regulate the library materials ...

Texas has scheduled four executions in 2026 for inmates on death row. The cases involve multiple murders, including crimes ...

Until federal immigration agents declared the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi a deportable alien, the Kenyan native was working as a Texas prison guard, with his employment authorization vetted by the ...

An inmate serving prison time in a Texas state jail for burglary is facing additional charges after DNA linked the man to two ...

A 52-year-old Cameron man has been sentenced to 60 years confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

The fundraiser, set up under the name Kitti Reed, says that Orange Julius needs a veterinarian visit because he has "been ...

Baldamar Palacio Martinez, a Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender, was apprehended on January 7, 2026, in San Angelo, Texas.

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Although many of them had criminal records, most people who died in custody had not been convicted of the crime they were in jail for, court records show.

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Nanon Williams was sent to death row for a murder he says he didn't commit. Decades later, through daily emails and prison ...