A bill introduced by a House Republican requiring voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship when they register to ...

Those seeking to understand the suffering caused by enforced disappearances in Mexico should watch these five films.

A new four-part documentary examines the fall of a notorious Texas-based neo-Nazi group and the federal agent who targeted it ...

A court in Stockholm on Tuesday convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious ...

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.

A film being shown Wednesday at the Mayborn tells the story of an overlooked Black cultural and artistic moment at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition that has shaped history.

I Am Ready, Warden,” nominated for an Oscar, follows John Henry Ramirez in the days before he was executed in Texas for murder. It also spotlights the sons of both Ramirez and his victim.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

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

Claude is in prison for attempting to murder his wife, which he claims was an accident, but could nevertheless keep him ...

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

A convicted British conman who featured in a Netflix documentary was sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison by a French ...