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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Horses graze outside the TDCJ Allan B. Polunsky Unit July 14, 2018 in Livingston. Christopher Young, who is on death row there for ...

Until federal immigration agents declared the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi a deportable alien, the Kenyan native was working as a Texas prison guard, with his employment authorization vetted by the ...

Jack Wayne Reeves, 85, is currently serving concurrent prison sentences of 35 years and 99 years for the murders of Sharon ...

After 23 years in solitary confinement, Alvaro “Xinachtli” Hernandez’s health is failing him. So is the system.

Texas executed Charles Victor Thompson for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend, Dennise Hayslip, and her new boyfriend, ...

Charles Victor Thompson, a Texas inmate convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in 1998, was executed by ...

A new comprehensive analysis of state data shows Texas prisons get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups. The state will be back ...

Charles Victor Thompson was executed for the 1998 murders of his ex-girlfriend Glenda Dennise Hayslip and her new boyfriend ...

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