Less than a month before being released, a Texas inmate threatened to “blow up" a Bureau of Prisons administrator's home once he made it to freedom. He's been sentenced to nearly five more years in ...

Carmen Mejia, who spent 22 years in prison over the death of a 10-month-old boy in her care, has been freed after her exoneration.

The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said hardback books are increasingly being used to smuggle in drugs. Nonprofits ...

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.

Texas prisons are bracing for an incoming winter storm as the state's correctional system works to keep inmates safe and facilities operational during what could be severe weather, according to a ...

TEXAS, USA — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) will tighten restrictions on books mailed to inmates as part of a broader effort to curb illegal narcotics entering state prisons.

Last year, the Texas prison system unwittingly started a controlled experiment. Agency leaders have long blamed prisoners’ friends and families for a constant flow of drugs they say are often smuggled ...

Texas prisons without air conditioning get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups, like county jails, according to a new ...