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Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that he says will prove he's not a murderer.
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The oversight agency missed key inspections and left prisoner complaints unresolved.
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Judge Janis Jack, who called Texas' foster care system 'broken' in a 2015 ruling against the state that started the process of federal court oversight, may not be done with the case she presided over for 13 years just yet.
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A Texas Senate bill under consideration would lower the current age from 16 for juveniles already in the system and commit a second felony.
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More than 1,000 criminal cases will be reviewed in Texas because of the problems with Qiagen DNA tests.
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Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.
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The Trump administration recently reinstated the practice of detaining immigrant adults and children together. Two detention facilities in South Texas are at the center of that controversial decision.
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An emotional, 10-hour-long Texas House committee meeting Tuesday highlighted the stark divide between lawmakers and the public on the state's bail system, a legislative priority this session.
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Those housed in the O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a particular Catholic order.
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Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low.