The Texas prison system is making it easier and safer to handle court appearances. On Tuesday, the Department of Criminal ...

The Texas Legislature should give great weight to a series of recommendations aimed at improving the Texas Department of ...

A recent interview with Michelle Pitcher of the Texas Observer about living conditions and forced labor in the TDCJ, the ...

But Collier added the Texas corrections system also had created its own hiring obstacles. In the 1990s, when the state’s prison population was climbing rapidly, the agency went on a building spree.

I have seen God move and change so many people’s lives and it’s been an incredible thing to watch,” said Jail Ministry Leader ...

A Texas man will spend years in federal prison after he was found guilty of organizing a human smuggling scheme involving thousands of illegal immigrants. Isai Orona, 35, who also goes by "Panda ...

The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate rehabilitation programs, the Texas ...

Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project. As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 inmates on ...

The Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended Wednesday for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to close some correctional facilities with staffing ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A former Robinson man who sexually abused a young family member over a three-year period was sentenced to 35 years in prison Monday. David Brett Bankester, 35, was set to ...