Harris County DA Sean Teare supports some of the bail reform proposals in the Legislature, but needs funding for holistic ...

A proposed $336.1 billion state spending plan that includes money for teacher pay raises, border security, property tax cuts ...

A federal judge in Texas ordered Boeing Co. to stand trial June 23 in a criminal case tied to two deadly crashes of its 737 ...

Data only pertains to Texas state offenses. It excludes criminal records from other states and federal criminal charges.

During the prisons-building boom three decades ago, lawmakers allowed private, for-profit corporations to compete for prisons ...

Xavier Olivarez, 20, was sentenced to three years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after pleading guilty to displaying a gun on a live stream outside of Cavazos Middle School in ...

People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

El Paso District Attorney James Montoya said the decision to no longer seek the death penalty for confessed Walmart shooter ...

The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In Austin on Tuesday, the family of Audrii Cunningham strongly urged Texas lawmakers to support a bill that ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the ...