Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...

The investigation was ordered by federal judge hearing a case on whether heat in Texas prisons qualifies as cruel and unusual ...

The investigation, which homed in on recordkeeping at the Mark W. Stiles Unit in Beaumont over the summer of 2022, found ...

As some information about Black veterans disappears from military websites, Rock Island-native and Los Angeles filmmaker Joy ...

Convicted killer Scott Peterson was on the losing end of a beatdown in prison over a dispute over pickleball, according to ...

also at California State Prison, Sacramento, leading to the victim’s death. Get Our Free Daily Email Newsletter Get the latest local and California news from Times of San Diego delivered to your ...

ALBANY — More correction officers returned to their jobs Friday amid a wildcat strike in its third week, following a Thursday night agreement between state prison officials and the strikers ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a Mexican drug cartel boss was sentenced Friday to life in prison for helping his father run one of the country’s largest and most violent narcotics trafficking ...

A San Antonio man was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for distributing child pornography, federal officials said Friday. Gianni Versace Del Prado, 28, was arrested in 2023 after an ...

The judge agreed to reduce Syed's sentence to time served under a relatively new state law that provides ... was released from prison in 2022 after Baltimore prosecutors uncovered problems with ...

The victim, Hae Min Lee, was strangled and buried in a shallow grave in 1999. Through the years, Syed maintained his innocence.