Convicted child killer Tanner Horner will spend the rest of his life at one of the most brutal death row prisons after being ...

The deaths represent a relatively small portion of people in Texas prisons. But Texas Department of Criminal Justice ...

The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

Nine people used drones and other means to deliver contraband to inmates at a state prison unit in Brazoria County, ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and a firsthand account from a reporter who witnessed an execution here.

A federal judge and advocacy groups are pushing for prisons to install air conditioning due to dangerous and potentially ...

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The trial over insufficient air ...

In April, a woman was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison after allegedly mailing Bibles soaked in synthetic ...

Texas prisons without air conditioning get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups, like county jails, according to a new ...