"I accompanied a senior citizen friend while he moved from his home to a Hendersonville nursing home, and the first thing the ...

Staff with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are doing more to help inmates reenter society after they've served their sentences. Stefanik nomination withdrawal catches some GOP lawmakers ...

An Albany woman has admitted mailing letters soaked with cannabis to inmates at correctional facilities. Maya McIntosh, 33, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court pm Tuesday to conspiracy charges ...

Thimmes sends inmates clippings of newspaper and magazine articles about prisons and new laws that would affect them. In the early '90s, Karen Thimmes' aunt would write her letters from Tennessee ...

"TDCJ is fully committed to the safety of the inmate population and our staff, and that commitment is reflected in TDCJ’s ongoing efforts to install air conditioning, identify inmates who are ...

Inmate Bernie Tiede, well known as the subject of the 2011 Richard Linklater movie "Bernie," filed the lawsuit against Collier and the TDCJ in August 2023 after suffering an acute medical crisis ...

The state did allocate $85 million to the TDCJ, and the agency is using that money to pay for air conditioning units. That money will help about 10,000 inmates move into air conditioned facilities.

Bonsall says the correspondence started "when I was on Family Ties." Bonall's mother Kathleen, who held the letter back from her son until he reached adulthood, recalled, "I just remember them ...