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

Albert Einstein once said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them." As someone incarcerated in a Texas prison, I thought of that when I heard about the ...

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Bobby Lumpkin will be the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s next executive director, leading one of the largest state agencies that is also in the midst of a correctional staffing crisis. Lumpkin ...

LOCKHART, Texas — Around 60 incarcerated women in Lockhart graduated with their high school diplomas on Saturday. The graduation ceremony happened at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Coleman ...

Two prison security guards were arrested last week with police alleging that their negligence led to an inmate's death as they "refused to help him" during a fire in his cell ...

Another Texas summer is here, and once again, tens of thousands of people incarcerated in Texas prisons are sweltering, and some are dying, because they’re denied the necessity of air conditioning.

This article originally appeared on Stateline. Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits. Facing growing pressure from ...

MIDWAY, Texas -- At the doors to the federal courthouse, teacher Nicole Truelove told her story of sexual assault. She says she was sexually assaulted Nov. 13 by a state prison inmate at the Ferguson ...

Albert Einstein once said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them." As someone incarcerated in a Texas prison, I thought of that when I heard about the ...