(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) Texas Seven prison escapee Randy Halprin will get a new trial in Dallas County because ...

Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and ...

A large inmate population and a changing workforce have created a “staffing crisis” that makes it “almost impossible” to ...

A 74-year-old East Texas man has been sentenced to 15 years in state prison after a 2020 murder in Winnsboro. Visit this ...

Doctors in Texas potentially face huge fines, life in prison and losing their license because of the state's strict abortion ...

GEO Group owns 11 private prisons across Texas, and the facilities at issue are mostly ICE detention centers. Its argument ...

A Comal County jury sentenced Joseph Haren, 71, to life in prison for DWI with two or more previous convictions for the same ...

The measure aims to make prison labor voluntary, following the lead of states across the country that have banned slavery in ...

Texans serving time for misdemeanor offenses or who are in jail awaiting trial are eligible to vote but only two counties ...

Many men at the Miami-Dade Correctional Institute, an aging complex lacking air conditioning in housing areas, suffered from ...

A Texas appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the judge in his ...