The University of Texas Police Department (UTPD) has a new chief. Shane Streepy, who had served as the department's assistant ...

When Justtice Taylor began working at Smith County Jail last year, the inmates made fun of her, and her co-workers worried ...

Smith County and Randall County officials have partnered with local high schools to house training programs that allows students to become correctional officers ...

Here & Now 's Peter O'Dowd wraps up our series about criminal justice reform in Harris County, Texas. He speaks with Houston ...

Vanessa E. Curry’s Lies and Consequences delves into Kerry Max Cook’s 47-year legal battle, from death row to exoneration, ...

Two counties house training programs in local high schools as officials pitch corrections jobs as gateways to criminal ...

A jury convicted a man for the 2021 murder of an Austin woman, according to a document from the Travis County District Clerk’s Office.

In August, the Justice Department revealed that the Texas Juvenile Justice Department engaged in a pattern of abuse and discrimination that seriously harms children and undermines their rehabilitation ...

The impending closure of the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility in Garza County has Harris County making plans to move ...

Robert Roberson was convicted in 2002 of shaking his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, to death at his home in Palestine, Texas. Shaken baby syndrome is a controversial child abuse theory that has since ...

Jackson, TN – U.S. Marshals captured a Texas fugitive wanted since 2019 in Jackson, TN. William Kelly Rhodes, 49, who has ...

He was convicted in his daughter’s death. Those who believe he’s innocent argue his diagnosis helps explain how he ended up ...