The UK government is looking to Estelle prison for ideas - for ways to reduce reoffending and to bring down prisoner numbers ...

A Cleveland man and woman supplied fentanyl-soaked papers to a group that worked with corrections officers to smuggle the drugs into Texas prisons, according to federal agents. Thaer Mustafa and ...

Inmates have to earn their freedom through good behaviour at penitentiary the Justice Secretary sees as a model for UK ...

Jurors in Waco’s 54th State District Court deliberated about 30 minutes before recommending the minimum punishment allowed ...

A Houston woman who was caught smuggling fentanyl into the United States last year has learned her punishment. Alyssa Marie ...

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has failed to comply with the Sandra Bland Act for almost all of the seven years it ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the ...

TOUGH Texas justice is on its way to British prisons, with inmates having to earn their release and facing punishment for sitting around all day behind bars. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is ...

Kaleb Nix babysat for “numerous families” in North Texas, and had more than 17,000 images of child sexual abuse on his phone, ...

Benjamin Elliott was just 17 when he claimed he woke up in his sister's bedroom with a knife in her neck and realized he wasn ...

PLANO, Texas — A 58-year-old man in North Texas has been sentenced to 40 years in prison without the possibility of parole ...

The federal prison system as of Wednesday was holding about 700 immigrant detainees at four facilities, a Bureau of Prisons ...