The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will no longer allow books with hard covers in an effort to prevent drugs from ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says starting April 1, hardback books and used books will no longer be allowed, ...

Abigail Shry was due to begin serving a 27-month federal prison sentence this week for threatening a federal judge, but she ...

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 ...

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.

Prisoners at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas, in March of 1966. Ellis is built on land from a former slave plantation. Credit: Photo by Bruce Jackson On a 90-degree June day at Memorial Unit in ...

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 ...

Abigail Shry was due to begin serving a 27-month federal prison sentence this week for threatening a federal judge, but she failed to appear.

Imprisoned people are forced to drink and bathe with water they describe as over-chlorinated, slimy, and foul-smelling.

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 ...