On Friday, the man who escaped from a behavioral hospital in Harris County back in March was sentenced to 35 years in prison for beating and choking a woman.

Just over an hour from Tyler lies the biggest prison in Texas. Take a closer look at the H.H. Coffield Unit, a massive and ...

They say he was sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, despite being a Venezuelan asylum seeker with no criminal ...

Here's how this almost unheard of ICE facility in Texas became the center of a national controversy. It's future was ...

A bill requiring air conditioning in the state’s prisons gained approval from a Texas House panel this week. House Bill 3006, ...

Punto Zero is a mental health facility on the west edge of Juárez, Mexico. Writer Morgan Smith assists with the center's ...

The just-boiled hot dogs are steaming as Trinidad “Trini” Garcia douses them with mustard, relish and pinto beans. Everyone ...

An East L.A. man who spent almost three decades in prison for a murder he did not commit has been formally declared innocent.

Nearly 13% of voters recently told UTSA pollsters that they plan to vote for Gina Ortiz Jones out of the 27 mayoral ...

GOP Sen. John Cornyn is facing a challenge from state Attorney General Ken Paxton in what figures to be an expensive and ...

A judge has recently ruled in the ongoing litigation regarding oppressive heat conditions in Texas prisons. United States District Judge Robert Pitman called the lack of air conditioning in inmate ...