Jaime Esparza, a longtime El Paso criminal justice public servant, stepped down from his position as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas.

Back in mid-2018, there were roughly 400 people ahead of Fernando on the state’s maximum security state hospital waitlist, ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is committed to enhancing public safety by prioritizing the rehabilitation of ...

The Texas Legislature was back in session Tuesday, taking up one of the emergency items Governor Greg Abbott identified in his recent State of the State ...

Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club.

The Senate Committee on Criminal Justice recently heard testimony on a proposed bill targeting bail system reform to prevent ...

Wrongful conviction advocates discuss addressing accountability with prosecutors for criminal reform with the Texas death row ...

A Texas man who murdered a strip club manager and smuggled a cellphone into death row to threaten a lawmaker is set to be ...

State lawmakers are moving forward on legislation to keep violent undocumented immigrants in jail. That's just one piece of ...

The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...

Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...

Opponents of the bail reform package say the proposed changes are based on false pretenses and could unjustly keep innocent ...