Detention officers were walking 32-year-old Alexis Cardenas out of jail. His family condemned the deputies' actions.

Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in ...

New numbers from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice project 18,000 new air-conditioned beds as a result of recent state ...

Texas' highest appeals court remanded the David Leonard Wood's serial killer death penalty case back to a trial court.

The Madison County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a woman was found dead at the jail on Friday. MCSO said Erica ...

The sheriff's office says Adams was booked into the Madison County Jail by Huntsville Police on July 24 on a criminal trespassing charge. Due to underlying health issues, they say she was housed in ...

A British grandmother has been languishing on death row in the state of Texas in the US for the last two decades years after being convicted of killing a young mother. Linda Carty, a native of St.

In Texas, James Kevin Pope receives a staggering 4,060-year sentence, the longest in state history, for multiple counts of ...

A relatively new pilot scheme has seen inmates on death row granted more privileges than they’ve had in the past. In America, 27 states have the death penalty, and among them, serving this sentence in ...

A Texas man on death row is now scheduled to be put to death in October for his conviction in the death of his 2-year-old daughter.

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal meals, TV time, prayer circles and - for the first time in decades - direct ...

A Texas judge on Wednesday set a new execution date for Robert Roberson, a death row inmate who says he is innocent of murder ...