The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

The families of three Texas inmates who died during the state's 2023 heat wave are suing the Texas Department of Criminal ...

Jovian Motley, 27, died during a tussle inside of a prison cell in the Wainwright Unit in Lovelady, about 20 miles north of ...

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that lack air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Wednesday in a groundbreaking, 91-page ...

Fans hang in a hall's corner at Louie C. Powledge Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men located in Anderson County in Palestine, TX on Thursday, October 21, 2021.

June’s meeting of the state prison board in Bryan included a presentation from the parole division of the Texas department of ...

A new filing with the Texas Workforce Commission showed about 900 Texans would be without a job by the end of August. The root cause: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is taking over the reins ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is working to resolve water issues at the Preston E. Smith Unit in Lamesa, where there has been no running water since June 12, but ice and water are being ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has been working with the city of Lamesa to resolve water issues at the Preston E. Smith unit, providing inmates with ice and water and portable showers ...

However, the Texas Prison Rodeo took its last ride in 1986. With the arena crumbling, the state legislature did not want to fund repairs and prison officials lost interest after securing ...