The Texas Commission on Jail Standards issued a remedial order last year to address several issues of non-compliance in the Harris County Jail.

Texas death row inmate Cedric Ricks, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, apologized to a surviving victim before execution.

The Texas Democrat has used his perch in Congress to highlight sympathetic cases in his push to free detainees and call ...

An inmate at the Stiles Unit, Robert Gonzalez, has died of natural causes, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, after being hospitalized.

Cedric Ricks was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her 8-year-old ...

A Plainview man faced up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

"I'm sorry that I took your mom and your brother away," Cedric Ricks told the third, surviving victim, Marcus Figueroa, in his final statement.