Central Texas College graduated four incarcerated students with Associate of Arts degrees through its prison education ...

Authorities are seeking information on a Texas inmate who escaped custody in 2010 after serving time for a 2005 homicide in ...

Texas prisons now restrict donated books over drug smuggling concerns, prompting warnings from advocates about reduced inmate ...

Authorities with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said a woman was sentenced to six years in prison for smuggling in ...

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The crackdown could drive up costs for families or limit access to books while hardly denting the flow of drugs.

To cool the state’s entire prison system, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has said it would cost more than $1 billion. But so far, TDCJ has not asked the Legislature for the full funding, ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said seven people, including two former correctional officers, were arrested after using drones to smuggle drugs and cell phones into an East Texas prison.

Prosecutors have charged a man allegedly connected to some of the deaths linked to the “Texas Killing Fields,” an area near Houston where the bodies of dozens of women were found beginning in the ...

Prosecutors have charged a man allegedly connected to some of the deaths linked to the "Texas Killing Fields," an area near Houston where the bodies of dozens of women were found beginning in the ...

A federal case that is set to go to trial on Monday could force Texas to air-condition dozens of its prisons, as attorneys argue the state is exposing inmates, guards and other staff members to ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal trial over air conditioning in Texas prisons began in Austin on Monday. An issue is whether or not having air conditioning for inmates who are housed in Texas prisons during ...