About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

"So, the court finds it is not in the parties' or the public interest to issue a preliminary injunction at this time," Pitman ...

The woman who has served nearly three decades in prison for killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, has been ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

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

An Abilene woman with a San Angelo address has been indicted and arrested for trafficking of a person younger than 18 and ...

Texas uses lethal injection — Pentobarbital — to carry out death sentences, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website. In Texas, from 1819 to 1923, people in Texas were put ...

TENNESSEE COLONY, Texas — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Tuesday water has been restored to the Beto Unit in Tennessee Colony. This comes after TDCJ spokesperson Hannah Haney ...

UPDATE: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice reported Tuesday morning that water and water pressure has been restored at the George Beto Unit state prison in Tennessee Colony near Palestine. One ...

WICHITA COUNTY (KFDX/KJTL) — The former president of the Patterson Auto Group convicted of trafficking and child sex crimes has been transferred to a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison ...

Measles cases in Texas increased from 146 to 159 on Tuesday, a week after an unvaccinated child died of the disease in one of the largest outbreaks that U.S. has seen in the past decade. Gaines ...