Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

A woman has been arrested and a Smith County inmate has another charge added after she allegedly provided him with prohibited ...

The investigation was ordered by federal judge hearing a case on whether heat in Texas prisons qualifies as cruel and unusual ...

Investigators found credible evidence that she was illegally giving out controlled substances to at least one inmate.

There was a battle in a Dallas County courtroom on Friday over documents not given to defense attorneys for the new trial of ...

O’Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that houses females on death row, among other inmates. Texas leads the country in executions and is among the top three in imposing death sentences.