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

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

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

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

Tyrone Oliver seeks $10.4 million to hire 330 correctional officers and improve staff-to-inmate ratios in Georgia's ...

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living ...

President Donald Trump signs executive order for mass deportation to ensue, while dissolving previous ban on private prisons.

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 ...

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 ...

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