The debate over bail reform is intensifying in Texas, with Governor Greg Abbott declaring it an emergency item.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is revealing the end result of an investigation into allegations jailers assaulted a ...

A 56-year-old woman who was in the custody of the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office died Tuesday at a county hospital.

Three Polk County jailers are in custody after Texas DPS says they assaulted an inmate. According to the release from the ...

Three jailers are now facing felony charges after the Texas Rangers determined they beat an inmate earlier this month. The ...

Kimberly Phillips, who was identified by the medical examiner’s office, was under medical observation while at the Tarrant ...

Within three years of their release, 5.6% of STRIVE participants returned to prison compared to 9.7% of all incarcerated Texas women, according to data provided by prison officials. Criminal ...

STRIVE graduate Melyna Rodriguez wipes a tear during the graduation ceremony inside the chapel at the Patrick O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

Two men have been sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison for trafficking drugs to San Antonio and South Texas while they were incarcerated in Oklahoma. Marco Antonio Morales-Perez ...

They want to sweep it under the rug.” He received his first prison sentence when he was 19 years old, and drifted in and out of jails and prisons for decades after that. Some of the carceral ...

More than 400 additional Texas National Guard troops arrived at the Texas-Mexico border on Monday. Some of those troops left from the U.S. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth Monday ...