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 ...

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

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

The animal has been confiscated by US Fish and Wildlife Services and is being held in an accredited facility until it can be ...

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

In this photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Texas death row inmate Garcia White. White, who is ...

The UNT Department of Criminal Justice joined the House of Renewed Hope by hosting a Wrongful Conviction Day panel featuring ...

Proposition 314 would make it a state crime to cross the border illegally and allows local and state police to arrest and ...

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

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

An intermediate appellate court in Amarillo has upheld the March 2023 conviction and a 50-year prison term of former Waco ...