AUSTIN, Texas — Texas prisons could be fully air conditioned within the next decade if a newly proposed bill becomes law.

Fans hang in a hall's corner at the Louie C. Powledge Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men located in Anderson County, in 2021. (Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer) We have ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Texas Legislature have had years to correct a deficiency that renders a typical Texas prison into what a U.S. district judge likened to ...

BUNA, Texas — An 18-year-old teen was sentenced to 53 years in TDCJ Monday afternoon for the murder of another Buna teen. Cody Dwayne Vann, 18, of Jasper, was charged with murder in connection ...

Explore the stark architecture of prison detention centers with this striking drone footage, capturing the isolated layouts, ...

We have lived on opposite sides of prison bars. One of us spent 22 years incarcerated for a nonviolent drug offense. The other dedicated over 20 years of career service in maximum and medium ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Gray News) – A former Disney employee who hacked into the company’s servers has been sentenced to three years in prison, according to authorities. Michael Scheuer was fired from ...

An illegal immigrant from Guatemala will serve two consecutive life sentences for stabbing to death a Las Vegas showgirl and a Canadian tourist in 2022. Yoni Barrios murdered Brent Allan Hallett ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The United States Department of Justice announced on Monday that a Syracuse man was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for distributing, transporting and possessing ...

GRIMES COUNTY, Texas (KBTX) - A Brazos Valley man who escaped from a behavioral hospital in Harris County back in March was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Friday in connection to beating and ...

A Reuters witness outside the maximum security Stanley Prison, where Kwok and Tam were held, was told by a police officer they had left. Vehicles were also seen leaving the more remote Shek Pik ...

WEST VIRGINIA (WCHS) — A California man was sentenced to nearly four decades in prison Monday in a child pornography case involving a child in southern West Virginia, prosecutors said.