Since falling out of compliance, the Harris County Jail has seen at least 55 inmate deaths, a gun smuggled inside, and inmates not receiving proper medication.

As Amanda Morgan walked out of state prison for the third time in her life, she felt equipped to never return.

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

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Texas Senate Bill 2 is moving through the legislature and educators are worried about its potential impact on the Teacher ...

Desiree Hamm, 37, of San Diego, California, became the first woman in Texas to be classified as a sexually violent predator ...

A Nigerian man has been extradited to the US to face charges in the “sextortion” of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide ...

No governor in the previous 45 executions in South Carolina since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 has provided ...

A registered sex offender who was again accused of sexual assault against a child was convicted by an Ector County jury Wednesday on two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of ...

A Texas junior high student found something quite unusual on their school's playground this past Friday- a fully loaded magazine.

The aggrieved doctors called on the former correctional services minister Ngconde Balfour to release ‘the full details' of Shaik's parole information. The head of the cardiology department at Albert ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A man, who at one time was ordered to serve the rest of his life in prison after avoiding a possible death sentence but was then granted a parole hearing last year, will remain ...