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Two Texas jail guards allegedly left an inmate trapped inside a cell where a mattress fire was raging — leaving the prisoner ...

A man charged with killing his girlfriend in their Wake Village apartment in 2017 has pleaded guilty in return for a 40 year sentence in the Texas Department of Corrections.

A custodial death report filed with the Office of the Attorney General yesterday afternoon listed the inmate’s name but few ...

LOCKHART, Texas — Around 60 incarcerated women in Lockhart graduated with their high school diplomas on Saturday. The graduation ceremony happened at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Coleman ...

According to jail records and the Potter County Sheriff's Office, two Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees were arrested at the Clements Unit for alleged Criminally Negligent Homicide and ...

Kailand Ariel Gray, former Glenwood Volunteer Fire Department Chief, was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay ...

Another Texas summer is here, and once again, tens of thousands of people incarcerated in Texas prisons are sweltering, and some are dying, because they’re denied the necessity of air conditioning.

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A Texas Department of Criminal Justice officer is behind bars after allegedly exchanging over 70 grams of meth with an undercover officer. Diamond Dunn, a correctional officer at ...

Police have charged a suspect in the murder of 21-year-old transgender woman Kier Soloman after a four-years-long ...

Inmates from left, Richard Hernandez, Arnulfo Ayala, and William Baucum in the Bartlett Innovation Unit in Bartlett, Texas on Nov. 21, 2024. Credit: Lorianne Willett ...