The data was provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice monthly and included breakdowns by unit, crimes, race and sex. Our site also included information on individual inmates ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KBTX) -Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate Jesus Villarreal, 39, who escaped from the Huntsville Unit on Sunday, has been captured in Calallen, Texas, approximately 230 ...

according to the TDCJ’s Unit Directory. Inmates at these facilities make up about half of the city’s population of 16,000. Some of the units have been open since the 1980s. Now, the agency is ...

Inmate Bernie Tiede filed the lawsuit against Collier and TDCJ in August 2023 after suffering an acute medical crisis in a cell where staff members had recorded a temperature of 112 degrees just ...

Inmate Bernie Tiede, well known as the subject of the 2011 Richard Linklater movie "Bernie," filed the lawsuit against Collier and the TDCJ in August 2023 after suffering an acute medical crisis ...