Texas lawmakers approved a sweeping package to overhaul the state’s bail system, a longtime priority of Gov. Greg Abbott’s.

A federal grand jury on May 21 indicted Abrego Garcia, 29, while he was in the El Salvador mega-prison he was deported to in March. The indictment, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle ...

The Harris County Sheriff's Office outsources the housing of roughly 1,300 inmates in out-of-state private facilities in Louisiana and Mississippi.

A convicted murderer and former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” has pleaded not guilty to a charge stemming ...

A new execution date is being requested for Robert Roberson. He's the Texas man who'd been set last year to become the first ...

The state agency responsible for overseeing county jails across Texas failed to consistently investigate prisoner complaints, ...

Defense attorney Alan Jackson began his closing argument Friday by repeating three times: “There was no collision.” He told ...