A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...

An oversight committee now wants the state to close jails and prisons amid staffing shortages. This is a follow-up in our ...

At issue is the belief by the two inmates – both of whom maintain their innocence –  that Biden’s commutation puts them at a ...

Steven Nelson is on death row for murdering a pastor, but Christians are split on who gets the final say—God or the court?

The new administration could use the existing system of federal agents, local police and jails to funnel more people into the ...

A judge has granted the state's motion to recuse District Court Judge Natalia Cornelio from Ron Haskell's case. Haskell ...

Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn says jailers "performed magnificently" ahead of the inmate's death. Mason Yancy's loved ...

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Department has been under scrutiny for months after several people died in custody in 2024.

In 2024 alone, 13 deaths occurred in the Bexar County Jail, leading the state to deem the facility noncompliant for the ...

Shannon Wayne Agofsky and Len Davis both filed emergency petitions prevent their death sentences from being commuted to life in prison without parole.

He was later convicted in the 2001 stomping death of fellow inmate, Luther Plant, while he was incarcerated in a Texas prison. A jury recommended a death sentence in that case in 2004. Agofsky ...

The day before he was sworn into his third term in office, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar received good news. The jail ...