Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

Understaffed and overcrowded, Texas prisons are experiencing worsening conditions that leave both staff and the incarcerated ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas prison system is making it easier and safer to handle court appearances. On Tuesday, the Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) announced it's expanding a program that ...

But Collier added the Texas corrections system also had created its own hiring obstacles. In the 1990s, when the state’s prison population was climbing rapidly, the agency went on a building spree.

An immigrant was sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison Wednesday for trafficking drugs to San Antonio and other ...

Marco Antonio Morales-Perez and Pablo Torres-Zaragoza were each sentenced to more than 21 years in prison, the U.S.

Wallace retired after working within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice ... Scratches on his worn name tag reflect the callousness of the prison system. Wallace saw through the bars and ...

Languages: English Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project. As of January 1, 2025 ...