Texas plans to add 5,600 prison beds across 14 facilities after lawmakers approved more than $300 million to expand housing ...

The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

Alexis Page, an administrative assistant, scans mailed-in books for possible contraband at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Wynne Unit in Huntsville on May 21, 2026. A new state policy that ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Bobby Lumpkin will be the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s next executive director, leading one of the largest state agencies that is also in the midst of a correctional ...

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus crash injured six people, including staff and inmates, while transporting prisoners. They are expected to recover.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says eight people were injured in a prison bus crash on Highway 164 near Groesbeck, ...