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WEATHERFORD — Parker County commissioners Monday announced a pivot on jail capacity solutions. The court in August approved the calling of a two-pronged bond election for construction of a court ...

Robert Roberson’s death penalty case has gained national attention for being based on the outdated science of “shaken baby syndrome.” But his 2003 ...

Texas DPS has caught Dante Odom, a 52-year-old on the Most Wanted Sex Offender list, after a citizen's tip in Houston.

Although Central Texas has not been subjected to the numbers of immigration raids and sweeps by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that have been seen along the border with Mexico, or the ...

A detention officer who was accused of having sexual intercourse with a Montgomery County Jail inmate and giving her a vape ...

NBC 5 is hearing from three former Dallas County jail inmates who recently filed lawsuits against Dallas County. They claim ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Corey Shawn Bavousett is the name of the inmate who died this past Sunday at the Bill Clements unit outside of Amarillo. A custodial death report filed with the Office of the ...

A Bradford County inmate has been sentenced to serve time in state prison after he was found guilty of molesting a child ...

On October 17th, an inmate at the McIntosh County Detention Center was found unresponsive in their housing unit.This happened ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) will be transitioning all personal mail for inmates from ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...