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

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

The Texas Rangers recently got into an awkward spot of bother after it released a new hat featuring a design with a ...

A recurring complaint we hear from police in Dallas is that they arrest dangerous people only to see them released from jail ...

AUSTIN — A Texas Republican has filed a bill that would criminalize transgender people who mislead the government or an ...

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

The execution of serial killer David Leonard Wood will end a nearly 40-year saga for nine El Paso families, but the victims' ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the ...

A prison guard holds a glass of an iced drink while watching prisoners picking cotton in 1975 at the Cummins Unit prison farm of the Arkansas Department of Corrections in Grady, Ark. (Bruce ...

The incentives scheme was introduced to tackle overcrowding in the Texas prison population which reached more than 150,000 in the early 2000s, but has fallen to 135,000 alongside the introduction ...

As of Wednesday, four federal prisons were holding 700 immigrant detainees ... U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said that he expects that number to increase "in the thousands, maybe even more ...

LAREDO, Texas — A 36-year-old woman has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for attempting to smuggle two Mexican children into the United States, according to U.S. Attorney Nicholas J.