A North Texas Lawmaker asked Gov. Greg Abbott to look into sending undocumented migrants incarcerated in the state to a massive prison in El Salvador, similar to the Trump administration’s decision to ...

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that because of flawed legal reasoning from lower courts, a juvenile judge must reconsider ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed on Monday the Texas Rangers to open an investigation into the East Plano Islamic Center and ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

The list of appointments was posted less than a month after the Star-Telegram found the Texas Commission on Jail Standards ...

Criminal cases involving Fort Bend County Judge KP George and Robbie Gail Charette, a Washington County politician, could be ...

Maverick County is one of the poorest in the state. Small-town politics and lack of outside interest has meant the known ...

The data only pertains to Texas state offenses. It excludes criminal records from other states, federal criminal charges and ...

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

Nonetheless, the state has imposed no consequences ... He was sent to the county jail. Texas law lays out what should have happened next. His form requesting a lawyer should have reached English ...

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