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

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

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.

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

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 ...

A former youth pastor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison without the possibility of parole for impregnating a ...

A Montana man was sentenced to six months in prison for crimes committed during his effort to create a giant sheep hybrid for ...