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

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

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

KSAT joined the Bexar County Sheriff’s Top Offenders Program (STOP) unit for a ride-along Tuesday during Domestic Violence ...

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

About 15 minutes later, the Missouri State Highway Patrol SWAT team and the Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT) ...

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

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

Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum-security Texas prison after cooperating with ...

A 23-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison in the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy five years ago at a ...

A Travis County Sheriff’s Office correctional officer was charged with allegedly bringing contraband into the county’s correctional facility. The alleged contraband: chicken wings.

A Travis County Sheriff’s Office correctional officer was charged with allegedly bringing contraband into the county’s ...