Texas criminal justice

Texas heat has killed prisoners and cost the state millions in wrongful death and civil rights lawsuits. Prison rights advocates hope a budget surplus next year will finally push lawmakers to invest in air conditioning.

The Damon Allen Act bars a person from being released on a no-cash bond if charged with certain crimes.

Following a declining inmate population and dangerous understaffing in Texas prisons, the state is closing two of its more than 100 lockups.

Gary Ryan was less than three months away from getting out of prison — and his family was doing everything right. His brother-in-law lined up a job for...

State leaders have recently cheered record-low unemployment rates in Texas. But the economic success has made it that much harder for the state to run a...

In 2018, after a years-long lawsuit , the state of Texas installed air-conditioning at the Wallace Pack prison southeast of College Station, as part of...