The announcement at a Texas Commission on Jail Standards meeting in Austin on Thursday morning was met with applause from the ...

Chris Harris has no intention of taking what she strongly feels is the mistreatment of maany immigrants sitting down, so ...

The City of Memphis may appeal a ruling in the Tyré Nichols case, but it was not exactly clear what ruling that would be.

New allegations are detailed in a lawsuit claiming a Houston man was beaten to death by guards in a private Louisiana jail.

(The Center Square) – With early voting underway, Gov. Greg Abbott has been crisscrossing the state encouraging Texans to vote. At a GOTV event in Cypress, a suburb north of Houston, he vowed to turn ...

“I’m not going to deny the reality — there’s no good explanation,” the interior minister said of how the 20 inmates had slipped out, perhaps over a period of time. By Annie Correal and Jody García ...

Two former SCDC employees were arrested for, among other things, helping an inmate secure contraband, according to the SCDC Officer of Inspector General. Getty Images COLUMBIA, S.C. Two South Carolina ...

KATY, Texas – A woman was airlifted to a hospital Wednesday morning after officials said she was shot by her boyfriend in west Harris County moments before he turned the gun on himself. SEE ALSO: ‘She ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – After national news spotlighted how former inmates are being hit and killed along the road back to town from the Santa Fe jail. County leaders are now leaning into new ideas to ...

Oct. 15 (UPI) --Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old death row inmate for the 1996 murders of two women, as the state continues its record pace of executions. Samuel Smithers was put to death by ...

Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey wants to crack down on panhandling. The Republican commissioner is pushing for action on panhandling, bringing a proposal to Commissioners Court to consider new ...