The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...

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

The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, ...

Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

Wood will remain in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice custody at the Polunsky Unit, the department said in a statement to Fox News Digital. Wood's execution was the second halted in the U.S ...

and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice continues to contend with a staffing shortage. County jails’ population is also increasing. As of February, their population was about 2.5% higher ...

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson said the agency had no comment on Holberg's case. Holberg is currently being held at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that ...

East Carolina University (Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology) is a public institution where all of the online graduate-level criminal justice classes are recorded and archived so that ...

according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website. In Texas, from 1819 to 1923, people in Texas were put to death by hanging. In 1923, according to the Texas Department of Criminal ...

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson said the agency had no comment on Holberg's case. Holberg is currently being held at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that ...

Texas Department of Criminal Justice, via Associated Press Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. appeared skeptical that DNA testing would change the outcome. “The DNA can’t show he wasn’t there ...