The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will no longer allow books with hard covers in an effort to prevent drugs from ...

The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

Last year, the Texas prison system unwittingly started a controlled experiment. Agency leaders have long blamed prisoners’ friends and families for a constant flow of drugs they say are often smuggled ...

LIVINGSTON, Texas-Christopher King can't get married, at least not while he's confined to a Texas prison. The convicted car thief and his fiancee are prevented from tying the knot because of a new ...

Texas prisons without air conditioning get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups, like county jails, according to a new ...