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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...

An emotional, 10-hour-long Texas House committee meeting Tuesday highlighted the stark divide between lawmakers and the ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...