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

Abigail Shry was due to begin serving a 27-month federal prison sentence this week for threatening a federal judge, but she failed to appear.

A man was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for his role in a human smuggling operation, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Wednesday.

Inmates across the country have died or been hospitalized due to hypothermia. Climate change is poised to make winter in prison even worse.

After touring an ICE facility in South Texas on Friday, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro called it an “absolute prison" and said that most of the immigrants held there did not have criminal records, and that ...

Imprisoned people are forced to drink and bathe with water they describe as over-chlorinated, slimy, and foul-smelling.

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 ...

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 ...

Sebastian Walcott has been moved aggressively through the system but still carries a very high ceiling. Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images The Texas Rangers’ system took a big hit with the MacKenzie Gore ...