A 28-year-old Princeton man was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal physical abuse and starvation of his six young ...

The airman drove to Colorado to kidnap a girl and hid her in the trunk of his car to sneak her onto Sheppard Air Force Base ...

Texas prisons will allow only new softcover books as part of a contraband crackdown.

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.

Faced with overcrowded jails, officials in Houston have partnered with prison companies to help manage inmates, sometimes ...

Prosecutors say a man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after admitting his reckless driving caused a head-on collision in rural West Texas that killed Laura Lynch, a founding members of the co ...

The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

Abigail Shry was due to begin serving a 27-month federal prison sentence this week for threatening a federal judge, but she failed to appear.