Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

Inmates from left, Richard Hernandez, Arnulfo Ayala, and William Baucum in the Bartlett Innovation Unit in Bartlett, Texas on Nov. 21, 2024. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune Two thirds of ...

The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year thanks to a legislative funding allocation, according to an ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Construction is now underway on a new Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) training facility. On Thursday, the TDCJ officially broke ground on the 64,000-square-foot space ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has responded to a reported lack of water at the George Beto Unit state prison in Tennessee Colony near Palestine.

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Two thirds of people incarcerated in Texas’ prisons face another summer without air conditioning after lawmakers again declined to pass legislation that would mandate a timeline for installing climate ...

Inmates from left, Richard Hernandez, Arnulfo Ayala, and William Baucum in the Bartlett Innovation Unit in Bartlett, Texas on Nov. 21, 2024. Credit: Lorianne Willett ...