Clarence Jordan has been a death row inmate for 47 years, yet his execution was never carried out. Jordan, now 68, was convicted of the 1977 murder and robbery of Houston grocery store worker, Joe ...

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

A South Texas man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in a human smuggling operation that ...

A South Texas has been sentenced for conspiring to smuggle undocumented immigrants that resulted in multiple deaths. On Feb. 5, Jose Refugio Torres, 28, of Roma was sentenced to 36 months in prison ...

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

A total of 15 of the 31 seats in the Texas State Senate were up for election in 2024. The chamber's Republican majority increased from 19-12 to 20-11. All 31 seats in the Texas State Senate were up ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Texas man was sentenced to a year and a half in prison Wednesday over his effort to dupe George Santos out of nearly $1 million by offering to destroy evidence in the disgraced ...

TYLER, Texas (KETK) – On Tuesday, an East Texas man was sentenced to 99 years in prison after multiple run-ins with the law regarding drug charges. Benjamin Clark’s trouble with the law dates back to ...

Founded in the early 1980s, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, also known as the ABT, the Tip and Ace Deuce, is an unrelated knockoff of the racist prison gang Aryan Brotherhood. It is one of the ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on Thursday temporarily denied an air quality permit for a concrete crushing facility that has drawn fierce opposition from Fort Bend County ...

The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate rehabilitation programs ...