U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor dismissed claims against Tarrant County and six of the named jailers earlier this month, ...

Senate Joint Resolution 1, or "Jocelyn's Law," would keep people without authority to be in the U.S. who are charged with ...

The current state of juvenile facilities is difficult to face, but the Legislature must address it, and the buck stops with them to find solutions.

Back in mid-2018, there were roughly 400 people ahead of Fernando on the state’s maximum security state hospital waitlist, waiting an average of more than 200 days, according to state data. Fast ...

But deaths have only continued to mount. At least five were recorded in 2024, including a New York City recruit who died of ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Amidst the tidal wave of executive orders, presidential appointments and policy announcements, it is easy to treat the interim policy memo from the acting deputy attorney general as just another ...

“As a family, we ... He was never tried on that charge after his guilty verdict and death sentence.Nelson’s appeals had been denied by state and federal courts. The Texas Court of Criminal ...

"Steven Nelson forever changed our lives, but he has never occupied our minds.... We miss Clint ... childhood in Oklahoma and Texas. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson told ...

New Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday ordered a review of the federal prosecution of Donald Trump as she unveiled a series of directives designed to overhaul a Justice Department the ...