The Arkansas Board of Corrections on Friday approved an 815-acre site for a planned prison to hold 3,000 inmates, despite objections from residents and local officials that they were blindsided by the ...

Beloved schoolteacher Mary Catherine Edwards was found murdered wearing police-grade Smith & Wesson handcuffs — sending ripples through the Beaumont, Texas, Police Department.

An event at the Historic Dallas Jail Saturday will celebrate the restoration efforts that owners Blair Propert and Victoria ...

A 22-year-old man accused of killing a Bay City man last year is now in Matagorda County Jail after being transferred from a ...

The Rev Roland Mouton, the twin brother of the late East Bethel Missionary Baptist Church pastor the Rev Ronald K Mouton, who ...

The multi-million dollar Randall County Jail expansion is “on time and under budget,” according to the Randall County Sheriff ...

Mugshots of people held in Scotland’s largest prison Barlinnie over 100 years ago have been made available online for the ...

Since 1997, 26 states and Washington have passed reforms that have expanded voting eligibility to over 2 million people with felony convictions.

It will result in possible jail time and a large fine. It's not worth it. Under Texas Penal Code §42.061, it is illegal to make a prank call to 911. This includes making a call and then hanging up ...

Abortion and the Supreme Court Texas’ abortion law provides "for prison, for life for health care providers" and some state laws "make no exception, even for rape or incest." Harris criticized ...

Travis Lee Merrill has been charged with first-degree murder in his co-worker’s shooting death (Picture: Denton County Jail ... on the 1800 block of Lakeway Drive in Denton County, Texas ...