According to an updated report from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), more than 451,000 criminal noncitizens have ...

The list of appointments was posted less than a month after the Star-Telegram found the Texas Commission on Jail Standards ...

A Texas Tribune analysis revealed that at least 41 people had died inside Texas prisons in 2023 during the state's ...

People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system ...

Cory Grado was sentenced to 17 years in prison for a sexual assault conviction and a maximum sentence of two years in state ...

The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee encountered a loophole in the sex offender bill that allows someone with a history ...

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

Jail deaths were not independently investigated by Fort Worth police, records show. A potential loophole in Texas law made ...

Texas lawmakers are proposing over 100 bills to increase criminal penalties, which could lead to an increase in the state's jails and prisons. The bills include measures to crack down on organized ...

Data only pertains to Texas state offenses. It excludes criminal records from other states and federal criminal charges.

A 45-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been sentenced for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside ...