The families of three Texas inmates who died during the state's 2023 heat wave are suing the Texas Department of Criminal ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

A new filing with the Texas Workforce Commission showed about 900 Texans would be without a job by the end of August. The ...

The families of Jon Southards, Elizabeth Hagerty and John Skinner are suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% staff turnover rate. Skip to main content. ... Texas should close prisons and jails with staffing challenges, state oversight panel says.

Jovian Motley, 27, died during a tussle inside of a prison cell in the Wainwright Unit in Lovelady, about 20 miles north of ...

Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) inmate Jabari Lewis pleaded guilty on June 13, 2025, to the capital murder of ...

HILLSBORO, Texas (KWTX) - The Hillsboro Department of Public Safety says an inmate in custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice called in a bomb threat to the Hillsboro Elementary School ...

A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a fellow student received the maximum sentence for his crime on June 23. Caysen Allison, ...

For the second time in as many years, the Supreme Court intervened as Texas prisoners sought to navigate the Lone Star ...

Trying to hide what happened, the man set the officer's truck and body on fire after shooting him while burglarizing the officer's home, Sheriff Jeff Neal said.

While sitting in the back of the patrol car, Hagan told police the next time 'there wouldn't be a warning, that he would kill her,' the DA's office said.