A little known detention facility in West Central Texas leapt into sharp national focus over the weekend as controversy ...

An El Paso man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for failing to account for and pay over trust fund taxes.

The Texas House Committee on Corrections has approved House Bill 3006, which requires prisons to have air conditioning installed by the end of 2032, providing $100 million over two phases.

Aghorn Operating and Kodiak Roustabout were ordered to pay combined fines of $1.4 million. A company executive was sentenced ...

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AUSTIN, Texas — A West Texas oil executive will go to prison for violating laws meant to protect workers — actions that led to the deaths of a worker and his wife in 2019. Trent Day ...

One prison building was heavily damaged ... The disturbance began Saturday at the Reeves County Detention Center near Pecos in west Texas, and hundreds of inmates continued rioting overnight ...