Legendary movie director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, wanted to screen "Stand by Me" at a state prison in Brazoria ...

Criminal justice experts said TDCJ's need for immigrant labor, even in Texas, speaks to the agency's long-standing staffing ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KIAH) – A historic prison in Huntsville, Texas, caught fire early Friday morning, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of inmates. The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, known ...

The Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston opened its gates for a different kind of visit last week as it hosted its first-ever ...

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A federal judge ruled that extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional" – but fell short of requiring the ...

This year, the cost of crime got more risky. Break the law, be sentenced to serve time in any number of prisons in Texas, and you may end up rather hungry. That’s not due to the quality of food (which ...

A former Webb County corrections officer was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting two women in his ...

This article originally appeared on Stateline. Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits. Facing growing pressure from ...

A former Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements, according ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Bobby Lumpkin will be the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s next executive director, leading one of the largest state agencies that is also in the midst of a correctional ...