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.

TRINITY COUNTY, Texas (KETK) — The Trinity County Jail has officially returned to full compliance with Texas state standards following months of repairs and infrastructure improvements, officials ...

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

The Civil War isn’t what it used to be. Instead of the romantic version, a “good war” of courage and glory, that emerged in the conflict’s immediate aftermath, or the post-civil-rights-era emphasis on ...

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

A Texas man was sentenced this week to nearly three years in federal prison for his role in a smuggling scheme involving a man-made tunnel, used to covertly transport illegal aliens from Mexico to the ...

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 ...