A Baytown man will spend most of the next decade behind bars after a federal judge sentenced him for drug trafficking in San ...

Edward Busby was executed by lethal injection Thursday, reinforcing Texas’ position as the nation's leader in capital ...

Edward Busby's execution would be the 600th carried out in Texas since the state resumed the death penalty in 1982.

A KFDM camera captured video late today of a woman at the heart of what investigators call a murder-for-hire plot to kill her ...

A Fort Bliss soldier who pleaded guilty to a fatal November 2024 drunk driving crash has been sentenced to 20 years in prison ...

A decision whether to mandate air conditioning inside Texas prisons is in the hands of a federal judge, as advocacy organizations try to force the state to address what they allege are dangerous, ...

A federal judge is weighing whether extreme heat in Texas prisons is forcing inmates to endure what could be considered "cruel and unusual punishment." Sen. Bill Cassidy ousted in Louisiana GOP ...

A new rule barring Texas prisoners from receiving hardcover or many used books in the mail is making it costlier and more difficult to send reading material to inmates, according to advocacy groups.

About 2,880 prisoners are housed at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston. Only one housing area, where death row and administrative segregation inmates live, is air-conditioned. Credit: April ...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas — A Wichita Falls woman has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to mailing synthetic cannabinoids and other narcotics into facilities operated by the Texas ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Seven people are behind bars after the Texas Office of Inspector General (OIG) said they were involved in a large-scale scheme to smuggle drugs and cell phones into a prison in ...

Seven civilians – including two former correctional officers – were arrested after investigators uncovered a drone‑driven contraband pipeline feeding the Mark W. Michael Unit in East Texas, according ...