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 of Texas to close jails and prisons in response to staffing shortages.

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

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

Texas corrections officers are driving long distances to cover shifts in remote areas as the Department of Criminal Justice ...

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

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

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

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 ...