A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...

At 54 years old, Darren Wallace is in his second semester of law school at the University of North Texas at Dallas.

In February 2024, 11-year-old Audrii was found dead in the Trinity River after a dayslong search. Her killer was a friend of ...

Don Steven McDougal, the man charged with capital murder in the death of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, pleaded guilty on Friday in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - An oversight committee now wants the state to close jails and prisons amid staffing shortages. This ...

A Texas truck driver charged in the deaths of 53 migrants inside a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning has ...

The 2-year-old’s father hit her with a blunt object and choked her as he attempted to evade police in 2023, according to ...

Micheal Brian Miller has been sentenced to life in prison after killing his wife through “extensive” blunt force in 2023.

A Georgia man is facing life in prison after being convicted on Thursday of flying a minor from Texas to Southwest Florida with the intent to have sex.

Anisah Burks was arrested in October 2022 after police investigated a medical emergency that hospitalized 4 kids at the day ...

Texas prisons were so short staffed in 2023 that the state spent $14 million on rental cars and hotels shuffling existing staff around the state to cover shortages at other prisons to cover a 30% ...

A Texas doctor was sentenced Wednesday and will serve 10 years in prison in connection with a “scheme to defraud Medicare.” He was also ordered to pay more than $26 million in ...