Internal investigation reveals Texas prison employees falsified temperature logs to conceal dangerous conditions for inmates and staff.

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announces Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender Raymond Trejo is back in custody ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announces Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender Raymond Trejo is back in custody following his recent arrest. Authorities arrested Trejo in Stilwell, Okla. on ...

The oldest woman on Texas death row is Linda Carty, who will be 67 this year, so no female made our list of 70+. There are only six of women on Texas Death Row*, you can read about Carty and the ...

ABELINE - The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced that Raymond Trejo, one of Texas' 10 Most Wanted Sex ...

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 health and safety of our staff and inmate population is our highest priority,” Haney said.

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

The last words of a death row inmate who was the first in the US to be executed by firing squad in 15 years have been revealed. Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot by three prison guards at the Broad River ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...