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

McDonald was found guilty of the same charge and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. According to court records, on Dec. 29, ...

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 ...

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.

A 30-year-old man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing a woman in a Leander apartment in 2022. Her child was also found unharmed at the scene.Accord ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A Texas Department of Criminal Justice officer is behind bars after allegedly exchanging over 70 grams of meth with an undercover officer. Diamond Dunn, a correctional officer at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inmates from left, Richard Hernandez, Arnulfo Ayala, and William Baucum in the Bartlett Innovation Unit in Bartlett, Texas on Nov. 21, 2024. Credit: Lorianne Willett ...