At 54 years old, Darren Wallace is in his second semester of law school at the University of North Texas at Dallas.

An oversight committee now wants the state of Texas to close jails and prisons in response to staffing shortages.

Inmate artist Brian Estes has been using his talent to create vibrant murals at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's ...

January’s meeting of the Texas A&M faculty senate included comments opposing a Texas A&M system ban on professional trips to ...

In the 1970s, under the direction of Texas Department of Corrections chief George Beto, Texas prisons used a brutal “trusty system,” in which corrections officers used certain inmates, known as ...

A Texas doctor was sentenced Wednesday and will serve 10 years in prison in connection with a “scheme to defraud Medicare” ...

John Henry Ramirez took the life of Pablo Castro. A new documentary tells the story of how his victim’s son, and his own, ...

Texas prisons were so short staffed in 2023 ... The challenges facing the U.S. prison system will not be solved with more funding alone. Instead, systemic reforms are necessary to align prison ...

Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

As legislatures convene in the coming weeks, many lawmakers are focusing on a key criminal justice issue for prisons and ...

Meteorologist Tommy House sat down with Meteorologist Paul Yura to discuss the types of severe weather typically experienced ...

A previously deported Guatemalan national was sentenced to three years in a U.S. federal prison for illegal re-entry after ...