The executive director of the Texas prison system reported to his governing board at a meeting in Bryan that the recently ...

Republican lawmakers announced that the budget will fund the planning process to shut down the struggling Green Bay prison by ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

Friday marks the third anniversary of one of the deadliest human smuggling operations in history, which occurred in San ...

Karmelo Anthony, the now 18-year-old accused of fatally stabbing another teen during an altercation at a Frisco ISD track ...

Data shows that migrants at some detention centers in the Houston area are being held, on average, more than twice as long ...

Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzales-Ortega were the first of several defendants to be sentenced for what remains the ...

Two smugglers convicted of federal charges in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found in the back of a sweltering ...

Mississippi narrowly beat out Texas for the nation’s worst health care. The Lone Star State ranks last for access and affordability.

Texas News Major lapses found in Texas jail oversight system, audit finds The Texas Commission on Jail Standards was found to have a number of "high-risk" failures, according to the audit.