Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

Understaffed and overcrowded, Texas prisons are experiencing worsening conditions that leave both staff and the incarcerated ...

A leader of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist prison gang, has died in state prison almost 10 years after ...

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

James Davis Jr. reportedly tied to smuggle the contraband into the Larry Gist State Jail using a food container.

Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, trans people are “told one thing from one staff person and a totally different ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A correctional officer at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont has been arrested for allegedly bringing drugs into the prison, less than four months after a previous arrest for felony ...

Morgan was released from prison later the same day. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune Dominique Morris tends to her unit in the STRIVE dormitory-style room. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The ...

STRIVE graduate Melyna Rodriguez wipes a tear during the graduation ceremony inside the chapel at the Patrick O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville ... Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune ...

O’Daniel Unit about 40 miles west of Waco ... 5.6% of STRIVE participants returned to prison compared to 9.7% of all incarcerated Texas women, according to data provided by prison officials. Criminal ...