The five bills that would require complete air conditioning in state prisons haven’t had a hearing yet, and the money set for ...

Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

Citing President Trump's policies, Congressman David Lowe calls for the transfer of thousands of incarcerated immigrants to ...

More than 80,000 Texas prisoners live in facilities that lack air conditioning. They have former state senator and Houston ...

A North Texas Lawmaker asked Gov. Greg Abbott to look into sending undocumented migrants incarcerated in the state to a massive prison in El Salvador, similar to the Trump administration’s decision to ...

TOCORON, Venezuela — Tocorón once had it all. A nightclub, swimming pools, tigers, a lavish suite and plenty of food. This ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

The new bill filed by two Republican lawmakers comes amid a firestorm of missed indictments in Travis County regarding murder suspects.

The homeland security secretary’s choice of a gold Rolex watch has been criticized as insensitive to the harsh reality of ...

The singer’s family and Chris Pérez, her widower, expressed gratitude to the Texas Board of Pardon ... mistreatment by the state’s prison system, according to court records, and she also helped other ...

The woman who has served nearly three decades in prison for killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, has been ...