New numbers from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice project 18,000 new air-conditioned beds as a result of recent state funding in the first step towards full A/C coverage. Here's a look at how ...

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 ...

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal ...

A South Dakota inmate who allegedly provided a drug to another inmate that led to his death in February has pleaded not guilty to charges against him.

Luna plays Federico Carrasco, a prisoner who "plays a deadly game against Jim Estelle (Kitsch), head of the Texas Depar ...

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

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement.

PALESTINE, Tx. - An execution date has been set for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has long maintained his innocence for the 2002 death of his 2-year-daughter.