Texas is set to carry out its first execution of the year Wednesday.

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

Williamson County’s Transformative Justice Program launched in 2020 with a goal of reducing recidivism, specifically ...

Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States' first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sandra Bland was arrested in Texas in 2015 and found dead in her jail cell days later. Now, lawmakers are introducing the Sandra Bland Act in honor of the Chicago area native. Its ...

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A state district court judge ruled in favor of El Paso and Travis counties criminal justice leaders, issuing a temporary injunction stopping the Texas attorney general from forcing prosecutors to turn ...

We recommend in the Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3. Brent Coffee, Lesli Fitzpatrick, Alison Fox and Thomas Smith vie for ...

Perry signs executive order creating state Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center, basically reconstituting Texas’ Criminal Justice Policy Council, which he axed back in 2003 Flimsy distinctions ...

In late April, during a Capitol press conference in advance of a daylong meeting of stakeholders – cops, judges, lawmakers, professors of law, and exonerees – for a forum on wrongful convictions, ...