The feds are adding thousands of beds to hold families in Texas, which reportedly holds the most immigrants of any state at ...

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

Authorities arrested Jerrick Lusk after recovering stolen firefighting equipment in a targeted Bee County theft.

A man accused of breaking into a stranger's home in Lake Dallas to assault her and her daughters was released from jail with ...

Officials at an Anderson County prison say water service has been fixed after families of inmates raised concerns.

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.

Gov. Kathy Hochul is ready to deploy the New York National Guard to state prisons if the correction officer strike doesn't end Wednesday. The National Guard would be used to secure the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS - Last Monday, Corpus Christi police officers arrested a 21-year-old man who allegedly made terroristic threats and planned a "mass casualty attack" on Texas law enforcement.