Costa Rica has locked up the first 123 inmates in a new mega-prison, built with the help of the Salvadoran government in the outskirts ...

According to officials, Deputy Kenneth Lewis was helping a stranded driver on I-10 when he was struck by Dennis ...

TIPTONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man serving a life sentence for killing his co-worker four years ago has escaped from a prison in ...

Santos M. Valentin was found guilty of scrolling on his phone in the moments before the collision.

It’s been a big week for execution: in Tennessee, they botched one. In Texas, they’re making plans to televise another. As a ...

Amber Guyger, the ex-Dallas cop who murdered her neighbor in his own home after she accidentally walked into the wrong apartment in 2018, was released from a Texas prison Friday on parole. Guyger, 38, ...

Amber Guyger, a former Texas police officer convicted in the shooting death of Botham Jean, has been released from prison. (Photo: Pool Dallas Morning News via AP) ...

Guyger, 38, shot Botham Jean, 26, in 2018 as he sat on his couch eating ice cream. Guyger testified in her criminal trial that she mistook Jean's apartment for her own.

Texas prison officials are requiring people to register with them before they can send reading materials to inmates. People have until Nov. 15 to create an account with the Texas Department of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for supplying fentanyl to a group of incarcerated men and corrections officers that circulated drugs throughout prisons in ...

(TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Lawyers for Texas have appealed a federal judge’s order requiring all state lockups to be climate controlled before 2030 to the conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ...

This article first appeared on The Texas Tribune on Oct. 12, 2026. The video attached to this story aired on Sept. 9, 2026. (Texas Tribune) — Lawyers for Texas have appealed a federal judge’s order ...