A Texas correctional officer accused of taking money to introduce meth into a prison unit has rejected taking a plea deal.

It’s unknown exactly how many Texans in county jails are kept well past the time they’re supposed to be released. That’s ...

A group that provides books to Texas inmates says new restrictions could hinder their work.

The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

A faith-based restorative justice program operating inside Texas prisons boasts an 89% success rate in keeping graduates from ...

In the 1970s, incarcerated musicians across Texas formed bands and recorded music inside prison walls. Maurice Chammah, a ...

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.

On October 1, 1849, an inmate was brought to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. He was the first inmate in the new partially completed Walls Unit, and was serving time as a convicted horse ...

Until federal immigration agents declared the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi a deportable alien, the Kenyan native was working as a Texas prison guard, with his employment authorization vetted by the ...

The Texas Attorney General's Office is investigating the death of an inmate over the weekend at a state prison near Amarillo.

Texas prisons without air conditioning get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups, like county jails, according to a new ...