A correctional officer for a federal prison in Texas has been sentenced to 10 years' confinement for smuggling multiple drugs ...

Humberto Martinez pleaded guilty to capital murder on March 4 in the strangling death of Hope Raley. Martinez was sentenced ...

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A Texas mother who spent the last 22 years in prison was exonerated Monday in the 2003 death of a 10-month-old boy who was burned from scalding bathwater while in her care ...

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 ...

They couldn’t fly the coop. Two Texas women went to great lengths to sneak contraband into a prison — disguising drugs and ...

Two women in Texas have been arrested after they allegedly disguised a drone to look like a bird and flew contraband into a ...

The women said they were being paid $40,000 to smuggle in the items.

Last year, the Texas prison system unwittingly started a controlled experiment. Agency leaders have long blamed prisoners’ friends and families for a constant flow of drugs they say are often smuggled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...