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 back in the prisons.

Eduardo "Tablas" Ravelo, the reputed leader of the notorious Barrio Azteca border gang is extradited to El Paso from Mexico.

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 ...

A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death row to threaten a ...

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

Inmates have to earn their freedom through good behaviour at penitentiary the Justice Secretary sees as a model for UK ...

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