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

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.

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 ...