Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

Tyler Wakefield, 27, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a Collin County judge heard "chilling" testimony of his ...

Robert Earl Cochran Jr., 63, of Alvin, received a 300-month federal prison sentence for distribution and possession of child ...

The man admitted to recording himself having sex with a 16-year-old girl, officials said. When police searched his phone, ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

A Louisiana man has been sentenced to 21 years in a federal prison Thursday for trafficking meth through East Texas.

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

Former North Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris has been indicted on five counts of lewd acts with a child. Here's ...

A Republican representative in Texas has introduced a bill that would make being transgender a felony in the state, ...

Police say Jerry Reid Mills will spend 20 years behind bars after he was convicted in a case involving the sexual assault of ...

Commercial real estate professionals make ideal volunteer mentors for the Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program, ...