San Jacinto County prosecuted nearly 300 misdemeanor cases in 2023. In this poor region, nestled in the piney woods of East ...

Nearly 60 percent of formerly incarcerated people remain unemployed a year after release, according to numbers from the ...

Texas reports as many as 1,700 victims of human trafficking every year. Many are prosecuted for actions they were forced to ...

The five bills that would require complete air conditioning in state prisons haven’t had a hearing yet, and the money set for ...

"It truly brings me so much joy to see them graduate at the end of the program. I feel so much joy hearing them describe what ...

Texas Senate Republicans and one Democrat approved the nomination of a formerly indicted Austin officer to a watchdog agency.

One Senate Democrat joined Republicans, providing the margin needed to approve Justin Berry to the state law-enforcement ...

U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from Texas, made remarks during a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on ...

HSI’s new work ... IRS criminal investigators out of the field.” The IRS did not respond to a request for comment. On the second day of Trump’s administration, a top Justice Department ...

The program enables DHS to work with state and local law enforcement ... of foreign nationals incarcerated in the Texas prison system. From 2011 through Feb. 28, 2025, the Texas Department of Criminal ...

D.C. The Justice Department's new stance contradicts the position it took during Biden's administration when prosecutors argued in a criminal case against Trump — one that has since been ...

Trump’s long-anticipated move to disband the federal Education Department comes after more than 60 Texas-based federal education employees were laid off in a group of 1,300 nationwide who were ...