Texas’ sprawling prison and criminal justice system is facing a dangerous staffing crisis that puts inmates and staff at risk ...

Moreover, some prisons in the state are operating with up to 70% of prison guard positions unfilled as shortages continue ...

AUSTIN — A convicted murderer who was run out of several Texas cities when he was released early from prison in 1993 pleaded ...

Under a little-known Texas elections law, state prison inmates who are actively appealing their convictions are eligible to ...

A Texas couple whose pit bulls viciously mauled an elderly veteran to death will each spend nearly a decade behind bars for ...

A dual citizen of Nigeria and the United Kingdom has been sentenced to 82 months in prison and ordered to pay a nearly $1 ...

A Daytona Beach resident was sentenced to 25 years in prison last week for stealing the identity of a comatose Texas man in ...

Christopher Scott, exonerated in 2009, joined the UNT Department of Criminal Justice to host a Wrongful Conviction Day event.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced a second man has pleaded guilty to carjacking from a ...

BURNET COUNTY, Texas — A Central Texas man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after he was found guilty of sexually ...

A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago was executed on Tuesday ...

A Texas couple was sentenced to more than a decade in prison each Friday after their pit bulls got loose and killed an ...