A detention officer who was accused of having sexual intercourse with a Montgomery County Jail inmate and giving her a vape ...

A rise in homicides among inmates in Texas prisons prompted a statewide lockdown on Wednesday, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The department said this is to combat the rise in ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is taking swift and immediate action to address a rise in dangerous contraband and drug-related inmate homicides. Over ...

Two Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees were arrested Sunday at the Bill Clements Unit in Amarillo after an inmate ...

BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is searching for an inmate who escaped the Clemens Unit located in Brazoria, Texas. Officials are searching for 39-year-old ...

BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas -- A convicted sex offender who escaped from a prison outside Houston was captured about 40 miles away, officials said. The Brazoria County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has banned yet another book in its prisons. Except this time, it was written by inmates themselves. TEXAS LETTERS, an ongoing anthology of letters ...

Multiple Texas prisons are almost impossible to staff, and the agency responsible for more than 100,000 inmates currently isn't set up to address it. That and other critiques were levied against the ...

According to jail records and the Potter County Sheriff's Office, two Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees were ...