The Texas Jail Commission has ordered the Liberty County Jail to close following a recent fire at the facility and a riot by ...

Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

Here’s what to know about the Texas Seven, including their escape from a South Texas prison, subsequent crime spree and ...

The jail in the county northeast of Houston has been out of compliance with the minimum standards of the Texas Commission on ...

The five bills that would require complete air conditioning in state prisons haven’t had a hearing yet, and the money set for ...

The list of appointments was posted less than a month after the Star-Telegram found the Texas Commission on Jail Standards had been violating the law by not appointing independent investigating ...

Average monthly bookings at the Jim Hogg County facility, located between Laredo and McAllen, has dropped by more than half ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside are dangerous to inmates and staff, according to an internal ...

Nonetheless, the state has imposed no consequences ... He was sent to the county jail. Texas law lays out what should have happened next. His form requesting a lawyer should have reached English ...