For months, third graders at Crooked Lake Elementary in Andover, Minnesota have been trading letters with pen pals a few generations older. On Friday, they finally met face-to-face.

Texas legislators bury prison cooling bill, ... Texas runs the nation’s largest state prison system — with about 140,000 inmates — but only about a third of the beds are air conditioned.

A so-called “second chance” bill under consideration in the Texas Legislature that would allow district attorneys to seek reduced sentences for inmates who can prove they have changed is getting ...

EXCLUSIVE: The only person inside prison who endeavoured to talk to Martin Bryant has revealed new details about the Port Arthur killer’s life behind bars after he murdered 35 people.

When I was 9, my family moved from Texas to Washington, D.C., and we slowly became pen pals. We've been writing to each other consistently for the past eight years, and I have two shoeboxes full ...

Prison Pups N Pals Helps Both Shelter Dogs and Inmates. BY Nicole Griffin Volusia County. UPDATED 6:01 AM ET Jul. 06, 2019 PUBLISHED 11:19 AM ET Jul. 04, 2019 PUBLISHED 11:19 AM EDT Jul. 04, 2019.

A Texas resident who made violent threats towards a religious organization based in New Jersey is headed to prison. Bhushan Athale, 49, of Dallas, received a 26-month federal sentence on Tuesday ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Andrew Smith, who was a former Texas Department of Public Safety trooper and accused of child sex abuse, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison, according to a press release ...

Texas will build memorial for Tomball family of 5 killed by prison escapee Maddox Feldott secures $1.6 million for a Collins family memorial in state budget, honoring the victims of a tragic 2022 ...