The jury says it has reached a verdict in the second murder trial of Karen Read, who's charged with killing her Boston police ...

Seven members of the Partido Revolucionario Mexicano (PRM) prison gang were recently sentenced to a combined 137 years in ...

A detention officer checks cells at the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth last year. A recent audit found that the Texas ...

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

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

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

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