Commercial real estate professionals make ideal volunteer mentors for the Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program, ...

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

Tyler Wakefield, 27, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a Collin County judge heard "chilling" testimony of his escalating attacks on women.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 2,000 New York prison guards who were fired for illegally walking off the job were barred ...

The Legislature is considering bills that would lift long-standing restrictions on how Texas’ panel can investigate maternal ...

A judge followed a jury’s recommendation that Eriese Tisdale be put to death for gunning down Sgt. Gary Morales, 35, on Feb.

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

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

These days, when he’s on the streets, it’s often with voter registration forms in hand — part of a growing movement of people working to expand the political power of an often-ignored bloc of ...

A wildcat strike by New York state prison guards has stretched into a third week, prompting officials to start firing workers ...

Prisoners may be able to earn their freedom through ‘good behaviour credits’ under radical plans under consideration by the Government. The Justice Secretary, Sabana Mahmood, along with David ...

This is the first time Ivey has commuted a death sentence, changing Myers' sentence to life in prison without the possibility ...