Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirmed Thursday the agency has been directed by Gov. Greg Abbott to move prisoners from the Briscoe Unit in Dilley to make room for ...

TENNESSEE COLONY, Texas (KLTV) -Saturday, April 18 at 5:00 p.m. the Texas Department of Criminal Justice updated the number of COVID-19 cases at the Beto Unit to 106 cases. There are 80 cases in ...

According to jail records and the Potter County Sheriff's Office, two Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees were arrested at the Clements Unit for alleged Criminally Negligent Homicide and ...

ABILENE, Texas — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said the spike in COVID-19 cases at the Middleton Unit in Abilene is due to mass testing. On Wednesday, casesnearly doubled, jumping from 65 ...

LOVELADY, Texas (KTRE) - The Texas Board of Criminal Justice voted Friday morning to rename the Eastham Unit which will become the J. Dale Wainwright Unit. The over 12,000-acre prison campus with 283 ...

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FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas -- The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is moving to fire seven employees for failing to check on a 16-year-old boy who died by suicide last month, according to a prison ...

Two corrections at the Clements Unit were arrested in connection with the death of an inmate.Crystal West is charged with manslaughter. Lt. William Romero is ch ...

NAVASOTA, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says on January 9, an employee at the Luther Unit was arrested after bringing contraband items into the facility. TDCJ says Benson Lu ...

LOVELADY, Texas (KTRE) - A Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) employee assigned to the Eastham Unit in Lovelady has died following a battle with COVID-19. The Texas Department of Criminal ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A Southeast Texas correctional officer who had just begun her career in January has become the latest TDCJ employee to die in connection to the coronavirus. Tracey Adams, 45, died ...