The Texas Sunset Commission recommends Texas close Criminal Justice Facilities facing staff shortages in order to reallocate ...

Patriot PAWS Service Dogs — a nonprofit dedicated to training and providing high-quality service dogs for disabled American veterans and others with mobility disabilities — has received a $15,000 ...

Securus Technologies and ViaPath Technologies control about 80 percent of the US market for calls in prisons and jails.

Rich Babcock has been named the director of the newly established Classification and Inmate Transportation Division at the ...

In the press release, TDCJ Executive Director Bryan Collier stated, “Officer Motley was a hero who tragically died while protecting his fellow officers and the public.” “When you have officers who are ...

In the press release, TDCJ Executive Director Bryan Collier stated, “Officer Motley was a hero who tragically died while protecting his fellow officers and the public.” “When you have ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Parole Division announced the launch of a 24/7 Parole Client Helpline on Dec. 1, ...

Calvin Green paced around the table again and again. Green was reenacting his response to getting his first smartphone after nearly 26 years in prison for a group of inmates at the John M. Wynne Unit ...

Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP "This is the best news ... one of Lucio's attorneys and the director of special litigation at the Innocence Project, said. "It became a nightmare ...

TDCJ assigns reentry case mangers to inmates ... said Tracy Williams, Lee College’s director of reentry services. “Batman, he’s got that utility belt. Well, our students have those different ...

Across the United States, state prison systems are grappling with chronic understaffing and overcrowding — dual crises that ...