For decades, corporate media and elected officials have shown little interest in reporting by incarcerated individuals on the ...

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

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.

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Over the years, Texas prison administrators have tried various ways to keep drugs out. They have moved to ...

When a GoFundMe for a sick, stray cat at a Texas women's prison went viral and raised nearly $11,000, it felt like a feel-good story. Behind the scenes, however, a different story was playing out.