Legendary movie director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, wanted to screen "Stand by Me" at a state prison in Brazoria ...

The Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston opened its gates for a different kind of visit last week as it hosted its first-ever ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KIAH) – A historic prison in Huntsville, Texas, caught fire early Friday morning, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of inmates. The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, known ...

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A federal judge ruled that extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional" – but fell short of requiring the ...

Questions arose about the prison camp Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator and former girlfriend, was transferred to last week, after spending years in a federal prison in Florida.

Albert Einstein once said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them." As someone incarcerated in a Texas prison, I thought of that when I heard about the ...

This year, the cost of crime got more risky. Break the law, be sentenced to serve time in any number of prisons in Texas, and you may end up rather hungry. That’s not due to the quality of food (which ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Bobby Lumpkin will be the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s next executive director, leading one of the largest state agencies that is also in the midst of a correctional ...