A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...

At 54 years old, Darren Wallace is in his second semester of law school at the University of North Texas at Dallas.

A Georgia man is facing life in prison after being convicted on Thursday of flying a minor from Texas to Southwest Florida ...

A Texas truck driver charged in the deaths of 53 migrants inside a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning has ...

Micheal Brian Miller has been sentenced to life in prison after killing his wife through “extensive” blunt force in 2023.

The 2-year-old’s father hit her with a blunt object and choked her as he attempted to evade police in 2023, according to ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - An oversight committee now wants the state to close jails and prisons amid staffing shortages. This ...

Keith Brown, 35, of Humble, Texas was handed down a sentence of 209 months (or more than 17 years) for his role in a criminal ...

Anisah Burks was arrested in October 2022 after police investigated a medical emergency that hospitalized 4 kids at the day ...

Texas prisons were so short staffed in 2023 the state spent more than $111,000 on rental cars for correctional officers to ...

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 ...