State officials are ordering the Liberty County Jail to shut down, citing longstanding life-threatening conditions.

Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas was able to close the Jim Hogg County facility because of Trump’s immigration policies. Records ...

Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative ...

Karmelo Anthony, the 17-year-old accused of fatally stabbing another student at a high school track meet in Frisco earlier ...

The list of appointments was posted less than a month after the Star-Telegram found the Texas Commission on Jail Standards had been violating the law by not appointing independent investigating ...

The state Senate on Tuesday passed a proposal that would require some Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ... such as detaining a person in jail for potential immigration violations.

A judge ordered Robert King, 35, of Texas, to remain locked up on charges of transmitting interstate threats during a ...

I truly hope, and I mean this with all my heart, that Kristi Noem meets a horrible and agonizing demise I hope she is tried in a war criminal court with the rest of the Nazis when this is ...

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that because of flawed legal reasoning from lower courts, a juvenile judge must reconsider ...

Shane James, the suspect charged with multiple counts of capital murder in a 2023 Central Texas shooting spree, has been ...