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

Nanon Williams was sent to death row for a murder he says he didn't commit. Decades later, through daily emails and weekly ...

STRIVE graduate Melyna Rodriguez wipes a tear during the graduation ceremony inside the chapel at the Patrick O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas ...

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

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside are dangerous to inmates and staff, according to an internal investigation ...

The Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended Wednesday for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to close some correctional facilities with staffing ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, ...

The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, or Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849, and houses Texas' execution chamber. Two-third of state-run jails and prisons in Texas are not fulled air conditioned.

A North Texas man pleaded guilty to wire fraud after posing as an architect to scam over 40 families out of nearly $5 million ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could cost ...