Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

A Texas prison guard faces being thrown in the same jail he guarded after running an illegal chicken wing pipeline to inmates ...

The state’s Court of Criminal Appeals earlier this month ordered a lower court to examine whether its findings in a Dallas ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

Law enforcement is responding to a hostage situation at the South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, involving ...

The civil rights movement that gained strength in the 1960s was marked by citizen activism – as well as police violence ...

The ACLU said it has met with women who say they were shackled, placed in solitary confinement for multiple days, and given ...

A Christian music star born without arms has been arrested on charges of possessing and producing child pornography. Jon Paul ...

The report found high indoor temperatures is risking the health of incarcerated individuals and may violate their ...