It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated ...

The move escalates the state’s efforts to improve conditions in Harris County’s jail system, which has struggled to comply ...

A reentry program near Waco, Texas, has proven successful. Not only does every participant come out with a job, but their ...

Leon Morell has been charged with disclosure of confidential information, obstruction of justice, money laundering, ...

Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy ...

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...

The amount the county paid to outside attorneys rose 18% from the previous year to $75 million — nearly double what the ...

Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the ...

The newest corrections and court security officers for t County Sheriff’s Office will take their oaths on Monday and officially begin their service. The oath of office will be at 4 p.m. in Elkhart ...

Michael Scott is the Texas Department of Public Safety 's fugitive of the month- and the crimes he allegedly committed are chilling. NOTE: Subject should be considered armed and dangerous.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested an undocumented Guatemalan man last week after the Prince George’s County Department of ...