Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

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

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...

Prisoners in Texas can earn credits through working during the week and keeping a clean disciplinary record. Credits could earn earlier parole hearings via work, training and education under any ...

Texas’ youth prison system has long been entrenched in scandals. The agency was placed under a conservatorship in the early 2000s following repeated allegations of physical and sexual abuse of ...

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

Learn more about the crimes of serial killer Kenneth McDuff, as told in Oxygen's Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler.

Prisoners will have to earn their freedom instead of being automatically released from jail in the biggest shake-up of sentencing being considered by a government for more than 30 years.

PLANO, Texas — A 62-year-old North Texas pharmacist was sentenced to over 17 years in prison and ordered to pay over $115 million in restitution for his role in a $145 million scheme to defraud ...