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

Texan authorities have been criticized over extreme heat in their prison system, where temperatures can routinely rise above ...

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

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could ...

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called Desert Killer and reiterated his innocence in a recent ...

Brittany Marlowe Holberg was convicted in 1998 of robbing and murdering an 80-year-old man in his Amarillo home. The appeals court said critical evidence was withheld. Audio recording is automated ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ordering a fix before summer in what has become of one the country ...

The exterior of the Texas State Capitol seen from Congress Ave. in Austin on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. The Texas Legislature will convene tomorrow for its 89th biennial session to tackle issues that ...

AUSTIN — Based on instructions from the governor’s office to review pandemic-era policies allowing government employees to work from home, state agencies are moving to pull some remote workers ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman's death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant. With a 2-1 ...

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East Carolina University (Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology) is a public institution where all of the online graduate-level criminal justice classes are recorded and archived so that ...