Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

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

Texas’ youth prison system has long been entrenched in scandals. The agency was placed under a conservatorship in the early 2000s following repeated allegations of physical and sexual abuse of ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

Commercial real estate professionals make ideal volunteer mentors for the Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program, ...

Prisoners in Texas can earn credits through working during the week and keeping a clean disciplinary record. Credits could earn earlier parole hearings via work, training and education under any ...

Learn more about the crimes of serial killer Kenneth McDuff, as told in Oxygen's Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler.

Tyler Wakefield, 27, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a Collin County judge heard "chilling" testimony of his escalating attacks on women.