When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Quincy Baker, a resident of Walker County, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated assault, according to the ...

Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

Garza County leaders have invested millions of dollars into the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility, hoping it will bring them a contract.

"This person destroyed my family. He took my sister from me," Heather’s sister, Haley Jo, said. Stevens was sentenced after ...

The death of an 11-year-old at a Greenville residential treatment center is among 16 deaths reported in the Texas foster care system in the last 15 months.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

A reentry program near Waco, Texas, has proven successful. Not only does every participant come out with a job, but their ...

A Texas inmate who strangled and suffocated a pastor inside his own church years ago revealed at the brink of his execution that he had ‘found peace’ and was ‘ready to go home.’ Steven Lawayne Nelson ...

Four defendants in unrelated felony cases received prison sentences in criminal case involving aggravated assaults and ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...