Officials identified a 40-year-old inmate who died following a medical episode at the Bexar County Adult Detention Center.

A wanted sex offender and inmate who escaped custody while at a hospital in Austin County in January was finally located by ...

David Gauke says ‘penal populism’ has spurred a 30-year political competition to impose ever-longer jail terms ...

At the Jim Ferguson Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, inmates are learning valuable skills in ranching, ...

The New Hampshire bloodbath may be the most extreme example of Theodore Luckey’s skewed sense of right and wrong.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

I was relieved because I was like ‘ok he’s in jail now, he’s going to be ok, he’s safe.’ But I guess I was wrong,” Thelma said. “ The jail did not protect him. He was not safe in jail.” ...

Tabler — the second person executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April — was ...

FORT WORTH, TX – NPR News is reporting President Trump’s new Bureau of Prisons policy has been put on hold by the courts – ...

Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...

Texas has executed Richard Lee Tabler by lethal injection after he was found guilty of the murders of two people ...