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The Texas Senate is set to weigh a bill that would bar trans individuals from using bathrooms that align with their gender ...

Contracting with that government would alleviate the ... Abbott directed state agencies — including the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — to assist federal immigration officers.

The attorney general’s office would gain authority to prosecute election offenses and make expedited requests to use spy ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s agency would be empowered to prosecute election offenses and more quickly request use of spy ...

Officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which oversees the state’s 101 prison facilities, asked lawmakers for $118 million over the next biennium to install air conditioning in about ...

Senate Bill 240 requires people to use restrooms and locker rooms according to the biological sex stated on their birth certificate.

In an emailed statement, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said the agency ... Texans about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

Pitman, who President Barack Obama appointed to the bench, did not order the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to immediately ... with full support from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

The bill also requires the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to house inmates in correctional ... Any state or local government entity suspected to be in violation of SB 240 would be subject ...

Moises Mendoza, sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Rachelle Tolleson, was given a lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville.

The long-running criminal case against a Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at ...