Police say Francisco Oropeza stormed into his neighbor’s house on April 28, 2023, after being asked to stop firing his gun ...

Hector Medina reportedly tried to get Santos to pay him $900,000 to get evidence against the disgraced former Republican ...

Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project. As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 inmates on ...

An East Texas man was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday for aggravated assault against a public servant. During ...

The Texas prison system is making it easier and safer to handle court appearances. On Tuesday, the Department of Criminal ...

On Tuesday, an East Texas man was sentenced to 99 years in prison after multiple run-ins with the law regarding drug charges.

A teenager testified Tuesday in disturbing detail about the six years of harrowing abuse she suffered at the hands of her ...

A Texas man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for carjacking a man at an Inver Grove Heights strip club and ...

Texas has a chronic problem with hiring and keeping enough guards in its prisons and state jails. Exacerbating the problem is that many of these facilities are in parts of the state where it is ...

Texas prisons were so short staffed in 2023 the state spent more than $111,000 on rental cars for correctional officers to drive to far-flung rural facilities to cover temporary shifts that couldn ...

(The Texas Tribune) — 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 ...

A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% staff turnover rate. Audio recording is automated for accessibility.