The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announces Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender Raymond Trejo is back in custody ...

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The oldest woman on Texas death row is Linda Carty, who will be 67 this year, so no female made our list of 70+. There are only six of women on Texas Death Row*, you can read about Carty and the ...

ABELINE - The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced that Raymond Trejo, one of Texas' 10 Most Wanted Sex ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...

“The health and safety of our staff and inmate population is our highest priority,” Haney said.

Officials at an Anderson County prison say water service has been fixed after families of inmates raised concerns.

Staff with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are doing more to help inmates reenter society after they've served their sentences. There are just three nations that Britain can truly trust.

TRENTON — A former New Jersey Department of Corrections officer from Brick was sentenced to three years in state prison on Friday, for beating an inmate who later suffered a fatal stroke ...

SINGAPORE - An order of respite was granted for a death row inmate, two days before he was scheduled to be hanged on Feb 26. Singaporean Hamzah Ibrahim was convicted of having 26.29g of heroin in ...