Polk County Sheriff Lyons says the Texas Commission on Jail Standards require each county jail have at least one guard for every 48 inmates.

Attorney General Ken Paxton's office asked a Dallas County judge to set the execution of Charles Don Flores. His attorneys ...

The Dallas Co. DA will seek the death penalty for a member of the infamous "Texas 7," according to reporting from our sister station, WFAA.

After reports of rampant abuse in youth prisons, lawmakers want more kids in adult prisons and seek to restrict watchdog ...

Ksenia Karelina returned to the United States in April and met last week with the president at the White House.

A Russian-American ballerina recently freed from Russian imprisonment is calling on the Trump Administration to help free an ...

As 18-year-old Bobby Gumpright rode his bike home from his bartending job in New Orleans in 1999, he began to concoct a story ...

The Walmart gunman-- who in 2019 killed 23 people and injured others in a racist attack in East El Paso-- will start serving ...

The El Paso Walmart gunman has been transferred out of El Paso to spend the rest of his life in a Texas state prison.

A television presenter "warmed" to double killer Charles Thompson after coming face-to-face with him in his new documentary ...

El Paso Walmart shooter Patrick Crusius was flown to Huntsville, Texas, on Wednesday morning, May 7, where he will spend the ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Six people in a rural Texas county ... The vote harvesting charges are third-degree felonies and carry ...