One of the “Texas 7" death row inmates convicted of killing an Irving police officer after escaping from prison 25 years ago ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday ... throughout the state's 150,000-inmate prison system when ...

A Texas man who murdered a strip club manager and another man, then later ignited a huge lockdown of the state prison system after smuggling a cellphone into death row to threaten a lawmaker is ...

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Richard Lee Tabler was young, angry and out of control when he killed four people in the central Texas city of Killeen. Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who ...

which would make him the seventh man put to death in the U.S. this year and the third alone in Texas, by far the nation’s deadliest state for Death Row inmates. “I’m accused of killing six ...

New York state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is struggling to keep striking officers on the job, as it grapples with the fallout from two high-profile inmate deaths and ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is now looking to expand its Recovery Housing Opportunity Program to facilities across the state ... number of inmates using drugs in prison.

The woman was arrested by federal investigators in December 2023, when prosecutors said she was found with sealed packages and envelopes addressed to inmates incarcerated in state prisons ...

A California woman was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison after she was arrested on a weapons charge and found with heroin-filled Bibles addressed to inmates in state prisons. Lucresia ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas ... to state Sen. John Whitmire, who is now the mayor of Houston, prompted an unprecedented lockdown of more than 150,000 inmates in the nation’s second-largest prison ...

Ford was the first execution in the state this year, and the fourth nationwide. Later Thursday, Texas executed Richard ... statewide lockdown of the prison system to search for contraband.