Every decade, the Sunset Advisory Commission audits different state agencies. A deep dive into TDCJ brought a strange dilemma ...

Jake Kidd, who was convicted in Tarrant County before being sent to prison in 2022, was found unresponsive at the Stiles Unit ...

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

Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and ...

A Texas appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the judge in his ...

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 ...

Upshur County commissioners on Thursday discussed using Texas Correctional Industries to restore furniture in the county’s historical courthouse, which is undergoing a $15 million restoration. The pro ...

People using Austin toll roads are going to be billed through the Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA), according to a news release from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

The inmate sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2021 after they denied his wife's visitation request because he did not have ...