For a third consecutive time, a bill requiring prisons to have air conditioning has likely died in the Texas Senate.

Lawmakers passed 79-39 House Bill 3006 by Terry Canales, D-Edinburg. If the Legislature or the federal government allocates ...

A Texas death row inmate, 49-year-old Matthew Johnson, was executed Tuesday evening. He was convicted of murdering a Garland ...

Even with the money in the supplemental appropriations bill, officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which oversees the state’s 101 prison facilities, have said they need ...

As clips of Texas lawmakers breaking gavels go viral on social media, the Statesman set about to find out where they're made.

El Paso Walmart mass shooter was moved to a Texas prison less than three hours from his hometown, Texas Department of ...

TDCJ adding air conditioning to more units following heat concerns Officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which oversees the state’s 101 prison facilities, asked lawmakers for ...

authorities say they got location data linked to the phone used to make the threat which traced back to a device inside a TDCJ facility in the Michael Unit, located in Tennessee Colony, Texas.

An Austin federal judge has declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly unconstitutional." The bill faces an uphill ...

A spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice told CNN Saturday he would neither verify nor deny the authenticity of a memo detailing events surrounding the December 13 escape of seven ...