"Despite what this prison does to me, it's the cats that make me want to be a better person." ...

Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States' first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for ...

Texas prisons are instituting 15-day lockdowns for drug offenses. These long lockdowns might increase violence and damage relationships.

Smith County settled for $1.5 million with over 100 former inmates who claim they were over-detained due to unlawful county ...

A second inmate escaped the custody of the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office in as many days, apparently emboldened by an attempted escape the day before, the sheriff says. Tarrant County Sheriff Bill ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that a man who murdered his wife in 2023 has died from a self-inflicted injury.

A second inmate escaped custody in Tarrant County on Tuesday afternoon, escaping from a jail laundry facility on Resource ...

ABC-7 has obtained data that shows the amount of deaths in El Paso County Jails over the past 10 years. The data shows that ...

She is accused of attacking a Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center inmate - for the fifth time since she was incarcerated.

The above video shows the top local headlines for the morning of February 3, 2026. LUBBOCK, Texas— Santana Gonzalez pleaded guilty to Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child on Tuesday and was sentenced ...

The officer’s arrest follows an incident on Jan. 2 at Tuberville Correctional Institution where an inmate was assaulted with a knife.

Charles Victor Thompson was condemned for the April 1998 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend at her ...