Two Texas jail guards allegedly left an inmate trapped inside a cell where a mattress fire was raging — leaving the prisoner ...

Over 300 bodies have been added to the more than 3,000 estimated to be at Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas.

An inmate died after a fire started inside his prison cell, and now two guards are facing charges, Texas officials say. The ...

Two Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees were arrested Sunday at the Bill Clements Unit in Amarillo after an inmate ...

LEESVILLE, La. (KALB) - UPDATE: On Sunday, October 12, Vernon Parish Sheriff’s Office reported that Blake Holland, 24, of ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

GRIMES COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- The search for an escaped Grimes County inmate came to an end on Tuesday when he was arrested in north Houston. According to the Grimes County Sheriff's Office, the U.S.

A New Orleans inmate who was mistakenly released last month from the same jail where 10 prisoners broke out earlier this year has been recaptured in Texas, authorities announced on Aug. 20. Khalil ...

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas — The Bexar County Sheriff's Office says a detention corporal was suspended for not properly checking an inmate who shot and killed himself while being processed at the jail. On ...

East Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is scheduled to be executed by the state of Texas in less than two weeks, despite ...