In the late summer of 2023, Jeremy Busby was brutally attacked by a cellmate in the Texas prison where he was being held. Over the next few days, Busby started to feel like he was the one being ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...

: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice reported Tuesday morning that water and water pressure has been restored at the ...

A search of TDCJ’s inmate records revealed that Patterson is incarcerated at the Middleton Unit in Abilene. Records indicate ...

Lopez escaped from a TDCJ prison bus while on the way to a doctor's appointment on May 12, the TDCJ said in a release on Facebook. He managed to break out of hand and leg restraints and cut ...

Since 2010, The Texas Tribune has published information about Texas’ more than 100 prison units and the tens ... seeking information in the meantime, TDCJ publishes similar data in real time ...

It also helps TDCJ cut down on the number of inmates using drugs in prison. "Now they walk with their head up, now they know that they have different tools to use and so then it just continues to ...

After the officer ordered the suspect to stop, four shots were fired, though no injuries or fatalities were reported, according to TDCJ. At 2:01 a.m., prison officials asked for assistance from ...

Someone really dropped the ball," Davis said. TDCJ said there's a good reason it never notified HCSO. While Ayala Morales was still in prison, federal prosecutors filed an illegal re-entry after ...