"So, the court finds it is not in the parties' or the public interest to issue a preliminary injunction at this time," Pitman ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against ...

US District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday held Wednesday that the extreme heat in Texas prisons is 'plainly unconstitutional' while denying a temporary injunction request to install air ...

ANGLETON, Texas - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says they have found a man that escaped from custody overnight. 33-year-old Kidanny Robles was determined missing from the Clemens Unit ...

During the prisons-building boom three decades ago, lawmakers allowed private, for-profit corporations to compete for prisons ...

Six TDCJ correctional units are located in Gatesville, off of Highway 36, according to the TDCJ’s Unit Directory. Inmates at these facilities make up about half of the city’s population of 16,000.

The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...

A parole officer suspected of sex trafficking was charged Tuesday in Abilene, according to online jail records. Symone ...

A Tom Green County grand jury handed down indictments against a Texas Department of Criminal Justice parole officer.

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...

In the late summer of 2023, Jeremy Busby was brutally attacked by a cellmate in the Texas prison where he was being held.