The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, ...
Texas is likely to play an outsized role in detaining immigrants because it already has 21 detention facilities.
In the late summer of 2023, Jeremy Busby was brutally attacked by a cellmate in the Texas prison where he was being held.
Private prison company GEO Group sued the state comptroller in 2017, arguing the company's purchases qualified for an ...
Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...
The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...
After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...
This comes after a day after TDCJ spokesperson Hannah Haney confirmed that the prison, located in Anderson County, has been ...
The Trump administration is expected to use thousands more beds in these facilities as part of its mass deportation effort.
It’s 2025 and for decades the electric chair has been obsolete in Texas prisons (It was last used ... including the Murray Unit.” Tasers were deployed in January 2024 and Taser/body camera ...