Texas prisons

Texas Observer reporters found incidents of neglect, apathy and abuse that led to over 1,100 jail deaths since 2010.

The regulations were loosened around the same time that the delta variant of the coronavirus began to surge.

Inmate suicides rose despite a prison population that decreased last year by about 20,000 from the year before.

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...

Even though Texas' prison population shrank this decade, the publicly funded costs to treat inmates' medical conditions continue to rise. The state...

Texas is chasing its tail when it comes to collecting court fees and fines, a new study says. And that inefficiency wastes courts' time and money – and...

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...

For years in prison, Kristan Kerr looked forward to one thing every month: a visit from her daughter. "I just watched her grow all the way up," she says.

The Texas House wants to give the state prison system $160 million more to help care for inmates. The Senate wants to cut funding.From The Texas…