A Texas Department of Criminal Justice correctional officer is facing felony charges after investigators say she had an ...

During six and a half hours of indirect nuclear talks in Geneva Thursday, American and Iranian diplomats made "significant progress," according to the foreign m ...

Texas' new Giles W. Dalby Unit in Post, a $110M correctional facility, opens with a focus on rehabilitation and reentry ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will no longer allow books with hard covers in an effort to prevent drugs from getting into their facilities, they announced Friday.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced that a revised book policy aimed at curbing the flow of illegal narcotics ...

Nearly a year after the Potter County Jail failed a state inspection due to overcrowding, county leaders are debating how ...

A Texas correctional officer faces charges after surveillance video caught him allegedly assaulting an inmate.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A former high-ranking officer with the South Carolina prison system is being accused of giving highly sensitive information to inmates in exchange for money, according to state ...

WILKINSON CO., Miss. (WLBT) - An inmate died at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility earlier this month. According to officials, Myron Ward was found unresponsive in his cell on Jan. 16.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas inmate Charles Victor Thompson, convicted of a 1998 double murder, was put to death Wednesday, becoming the first person executed in the U.S. this year, the Associated Press ...