People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside ...

Everything changed on March 10, for two families — a homicide victim’s and a defendant’s, both 14-year-old girls — and for ...

A woman has been arrested and a Smith County inmate has another charge added after she allegedly provided him with prohibited ...

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

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

The victims are: 14-year-old Dawn Marie Smith, 15-year-old Desiree Wheatley ... March 13, 2025, at the Texas Department of ...

The Trump administration is considering significant cuts to the U.S. Justice Department's Public Integrity Section, which handles public corruption cases. This decision could see most attorneys in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the Justice Department section that handles ... Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Jack Smith, who led the unit years before being appointed special counsel ...

Sheriff Thomas noted Potter County currently has active inmate housing agreements with Childress, Garza, Smith ... transfers by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDC), the steady influx ...

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and another on Tuesday.