The latest Texas Department Of Criminal Justice news from The Texas Tribune. By Pooja Salhotra Feb. 6, 2025 Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money ...

The Texas Legislature was back in session Tuesday, taking up one of the emergency items Governor Greg Abbott identified in ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDJC) broke ground on their 64,000 square feet training facility on Thursday. The new Huntsville training facility is expected to be completed in summer 2026 ...

The data was provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice monthly and included breakdowns by unit, crimes, race and sex. Our site also included information on individual inmates ...

The Texas Board of Criminal Justice oversees the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and provides confinement, supervision, rehabilitation and reintegration of Texans convicted of felonies.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to capital punishment.

(The Texas Tribune) — The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate ...

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 ...

He was subsequently sentenced to five years of confinement in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison. In 2011, Alonzo was convicted of failure to register as a sex offender and subsequently ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville carried out the execution. "After years of legal battles, Steven Nelson was punished for his heinous crimes and justice has finally been ...