Texas executed a 49-year-old death row inmate for the gruesome murder of a grandmother during a robbery in 2012, making him ...

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

James Edward Smith was sentenced to death by lethal injection in June 1990 following the murder of life insurance worker ...

The Texas House has passed a bill that would require state prisons to have air conditioning. The bill would require the Texas ...

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

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

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) inmate called in a bomb threat to the Hillsboro Elementary School, according to ...

Authorities say the threat was made by an inmate at the TDCJ facility in Tennessee Colony and that the incident is an ...

Police say a warrant will be sought for the 31-year-old inmate, who was not identified and remains in TDCJ custody.

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility. William C. Cash, 39, was found ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is a huge business in Texas. The TDCJ is one of the largest employers in the Lone ...