More than 80,000 Texas prisoners live in facilities that lack air conditioning. They have former state senator and Houston ...

An Upshur County jailer faces arrest for allegedly engaging in improper sexual conduct with an inmate. UPSHUR COUNTY, Texas — An Upshur County Sheriff's Office jailer was arrested Monday for improper ...

The Upshur County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a former jailer for alleged improper sexual activity with a male inmate. Photo of Dallas Mosley, courtesy of ...

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that lack air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional,” U.S. District ...

During the prisons-building boom three decades ago, lawmakers allowed private, for-profit corporations to compete for prisons ...

In previous years, detainees have reported inadequate medical care, mistreatment and psychological trauma inflicted on ...

The Trump administration recently reinstated the practice of detaining immigrant adults and children together. Two detention ...

Elon Musk's DOGE blasted San Antonio-based Endeavors for its contracts to run a migrant camp in Texas, but has stayed mum other firms raking in millions ...

More facilities may be opening in Texas soon. The Trump administration plans to reopen a facility in Dilley to hold families ... They say the private prison companies that run the facilities ...

Private prison company GEO Group sued the state comptroller in 2017, arguing the company's purchases qualified for an exemption.

The South Texas Family Residential Center, an immigrant detention center in Dilley, about 70 miles southwest ... Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project. “Texas is really the epicenter ...