Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

A Longview man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for sexually abusing a child for 14 consecutive years. A jury in the ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

The feds are adding thousands of beds to hold families in Texas, which reportedly holds the most immigrants of any state at ...

Tyler Wakefield, 27, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a Collin County judge heard "chilling" testimony of his ...

Robert Earl Cochran Jr., 63, of Alvin, received a 300-month federal prison sentence for distribution and possession of child ...

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Former North Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris has been indicted on five counts of lewd acts with a child. Here's ...

Police say Jerry Reid Mills will spend 20 years behind bars after he was convicted in a case involving the sexual assault of ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

Commercial real estate professionals make ideal volunteer mentors for the Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program, ...