Texas plans to add 5,600 prison beds across 14 facilities after lawmakers approved more than $300 million to expand housing ...

The charges include one count of organized election fraud, a first-degree felony; 17 counts of unlawful possession of ballots, second-degree felonies; and 17 counts of unlawfully assisting voters ...

Texas' juvenile prison system is nearing total collapse. Its five lockups are dangerously understaffed, an ongoing problem that worsened dramatically last year when its turnover rate hit more than 70% ...

In Texas, people want to see fairness when it comes to crime and punishment. Justice should treat everyone equally, regardless of who they are or where they come from. But what if the system isn't as ...

Read full article: Why more Tarrant County kids are going to Texas youth prisons than any others The rising number of youth sent from counties like Tarrant is helping to push the waitlist for beds in ...

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March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday temporarily blocked a judicial decision that would let a Texas law take effect to give state officials broad powers to arrest, ...

WASHINGTON — (AP) The Department of Justice sued Texas over new redistricting maps Monday, saying the plans discriminate against voters in the state's booming Latino and Black populations. The lawsuit ...

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In a three-way battle for chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, Republican incumbent Chief Justice Nathan Hecht is defending his bench from Democratic challenger Amy Clark Meachum and Libertarian ...

A Texas man who has been on death row since 2003 had his conviction overturned on Wednesday because of newly uncovered evidence that the county attorney who prosecuted him was also working for the ...