A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...

JASPER, Texas — Inmate labor programs at the Jasper County Jail are designed to reduce recidivism by providing valuable work skills and boosting self-confidence. These programs also offer significant ...

The TDCJ must also work with Windham to create a “strategic plan for rehabilitation and reentry programs,” the commission said. [Inside the only college class in Texas to help prepare inmates ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections says its Office of Special Investigation learned several tablets used by inmates in an educational program had been altered to have unrestricted access to ...

The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate rehabilitation programs ...

Police in North Texas said they caught up with an escaped Alabama inmate near the gas station chain's Melissa location. The Buc-ee's bust began to unfold there at about 1:47 p.m. Sunday ...

(NewsNation) — A Texas death row inmate slated to be executed Wednesday is giving what could be his last interview. Steven Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of Pastor Clint Dobson at a ...

A North Texas man is set to be executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville this evening despite maintaining his ...