Lawmakers in Texas are seeking to impose harsh criminal penalties on school librarians and teachers who provide award-winning ...

During the prisons-building boom three decades ago, lawmakers allowed private, for-profit corporations to compete for prisons ...

The list of appointments was posted less than a month after the Star-Telegram found the Texas Commission on Jail Standards ...

Injustice sat down with Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer housed at the Lane Murray Unit, the largest women’s prison in ...

Cory Grado was sentenced to 17 years in prison for a sexual assault conviction and a maximum sentence of two years in state ...

Former UFC champ Cain Velasquez on Monday was sentenced to five years in prison, to include time served, stemming from a 2022 ...

The removal of the death penalty as an option could lead to a quick guilty plea and life sentence, as happened with federal charges in 2023.

The administration is invoking an extraordinary national security power, the state secrets privilege, under highly unusual ...

Relatives and attorneys seek answers about the men sent to the high-security prison as the Venezuelan government calls for ...

The district attorney in El Paso, Texas has decided not to seek the death penalty for Patrick Crusius, the man who admitted ...

Attacks on Tesla dealerships, cars and equipment are "rudimentary" and require little planning, according to an FBI and ...

Garza County Commissioners have narrowed down their options for the future of the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility.