Prison administrators had approved my release back into the general population, and I had been transferred to the William McConnell Unit in South Texas. There were two other prisoners standing in ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s staffing shortages harm the safety of staff, inmates, and the public, state lawmakers found in a new report, as the nation’s largest state prison ...

Seven armed convicts, who escaped from a Texas prison December 13, 2000, are suspected of shooting a policeman 11 times in a Christmas Eve robbery near Dallas. The convicts are top row L-R ...

A Texas inmate serving a sentence at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont for sexual assault of a child died this week. Jake Kidd, who ...

(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) Texas Seven prison escapee Randy Halprin will get a new trial ... Halprin, who is Jewish ...

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas - A Comal County man has been sentenced to life in prison, after pleading guilty to his sixth DWI. A ...

This October marks 38 years since the last Texas Prison Rodeo event was held. The rodeo was discontinued in 1986 due to structural issues with the arena which was adjacent to the Walls Unit ...

(The Texas Tribune) - Many state prison inmates in Texas, including people on death row, are eligible to vote — and may not even know it. Under a little-known section of state elections law ...

The Texas Tribune-ProPublica Investigative Unit uncovers big stories that matter to Texans and the nation, taking aim at corruption, injustice and malfeasance across the state. Read on for the ...

A large inmate population and a changing workforce have created a "staffing crisis" that makes it "almost impossible" to ...