James Talarico, the Austin state representative who just clinched the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, is back under ...

Rodney Reed’s quest over the last decade to obtain DNA testing to try to prove his innocence has attracted wide attention.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed who has sought to test crime-scene ...

Reed was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Prosecutors have refused to allow for DNA ...

It’s unknown exactly how many Texans in county jails are kept well past the time they’re supposed to be released. That’s ...

After their prison terms, state-designated sexual predators are placed in the Texas Civil Commitment Center, where many are ...

Many things might be bigger and better in Texas, but apparently not its treatment of women, according to a new study released by WalletHub on Monday, March 2. WalletHub unveiled its analysis of the ...

The directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary open up about Alabama's prison system, Kay Ivey and Steve Marshall.

Little is known about the status or whereabouts of the Salvadorans deported by President Donald Trump to CECOT, an infamous ...

Carmen Mejia, a Honduran immigrant who was sentenced to life in prison for the 2003 scalding death of an infant in her care, was formally declared innocent in an Austin courtroom on Monday. “I’m now ...

DALLAS — Two women were arrested after allegedly using a plastic crow as a decoy to smuggle drugs, cellphones and tobacco into a federal prison, Louisiana authorities said. Melanie Jean Worthington, ...

GRANT PARISH, La. (WNTZ) – Two Texas women were arrested after authorities say they attempted to smuggle drugs, cell phones and tobacco into a federal prison in Grant Parish by using a drone to drop ...