After 23 years in solitary confinement, Alvaro “Xinachtli” Hernandez’s health is failing him. So is the system.

A new comprehensive analysis of state data shows Texas prisons get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely ...

Texas sets temperature standards for county jails and even animal shelters. But state prisons have no enforceable heat limits ...

For more than two decades, Marshall Moreno sat in a Texas prison, convicted of sexually assaulting his own child. Now prosecutors say he is actually innocent as his now-adult daughter has recanted her ...

Less than 36 hours before they were killed last month, Rob and Michele Reiner sat in a Los Angeles theater watching “Lyrics from Lockdown,” a one-man show about race, justice and mass incarceration in ...

The owners, both legal permanent residents, now face potential deportation and loss of their legal status due to the felony ...

Human smugglers were sentenced to prison in schemes involving drug cartels and digging tunnels from Juárez to El Paso.