An "emergency situation" in an East Texas jail prompted the Bell County Commissioners Court to approve short-term housing of ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

A Texas judge has rescheduled the execution of a death row inmate who won a rare stay of execution last year as prison officials were poised to administer his lethal injection. Judge Austin Reeve ...

A 30-year-old Austin, Texas, man who allegedly fled from an Arkansas state trooper after his arrest on Interstate 40 on Oct. 2 and later headbutted another inmate during processing at ...

A detention officer who was accused of having sexual intercourse with a Montgomery County Jail inmate and giving her a vape ...

Two people arrested in a July shooting outside an immigration detention center in Texas are facing new charges that follow ...

Similar stories are coming from former inmates of the Dallas County Jail, who say they served too much time behind bars.