LOCKHART, Texas — Around 60 incarcerated women in Lockhart graduated with their high school diplomas on Saturday. Their graduation ceremony happened at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s ...

Countless inmates will continue languishing in sweltering temperatures because efforts to provide air conditioning throughout ...

The families of Jon Southards, Elizabeth Hagerty and John Skinner are suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in connection with their loved ones' deaths.

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

Three families, whose relatives died while in Texas prisons during a summer heat wave, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in US District Court Thursday against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,… ...

Two thirds of people incarcerated in Texas’ prisons face another summer without air conditioning after lawmakers again declined to pass legislation that would mandate a timeline for ...