When a group of state prison guards were hit with criminal charges for beating a prisoner to death last month, Gov. Kathy ...

A House priority bill undercuts previous reforms aimed at ensuring young children can remain in school except under the most ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

A Texas lawmaker has introduced a bill to change the language in the state’s abortion laws to make it clearer when exceptions ...

Prisoners in Texas can earn credits through working ... Reacting to the visit, the deputy director of the charity Prison Reform Trust, Mark Day, said there are “important lessons” that can ...

(The Center Square) – The Texas Senate passed a bipartisan bill with nearly unanimous support to implement statewide bail reform. Gov. Greg Abbott listed bail reform as an emergency item for the ...

Editor’s Note: The Texas Observer sought TDCJ responses to ... Last year, I saw a transition start to take place inside the prison where I had been incarcerated. Chemical agents were being ...

They believe it’s simply an inevitable part of their incarceration. For the record, sexual contact with people in prison is a felony in Texas, and the state's department of corrections has a “zero ...

The new Texas Supreme Court chief justice wants state ... Blacklock thanked Huffman for leading the passage of bail reform measures in the Senate, named an emergency item this session by Gov.

Today, Holcomb is ensconced as a commercial real estate-focused mortgage loan officer for Houston-based Matador Lending — and he credits his participation in Texas' competitive Prison ...

A Texas lawmaker filed a bill that would amend ... Those found guilty could face up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine if the legislative proposal were to become law. LGBTQ community ...

Texas lawmakers are weighing numerous measures to tighten bail restrictions in Texas ... “It seems clear that that really just completely ignores the presumption of innocence in our constitutional ...