After 23 years in solitary confinement, Alvaro “Xinachtli” Hernandez’s health is failing him. So is the system.

Human smugglers were sentenced to prison in schemes involving drug cartels and digging tunnels from Juárez to El Paso.

A new comprehensive analysis of state data shows Texas prisons get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely ...

Imprisoned people are forced to drink and bathe with water they describe as over-chlorinated, slimy, and foul-smelling.

Texas sets temperature standards for county jails and even animal shelters. But state prisons have no enforceable heat limits ...

In May 2018, Ruby McPeters was eight months pregnant when she was booked into Hood County jail on a probation violation.

Inmates across the country have died or been hospitalized due to hypothermia. Climate change is poised to make winter in ...

Cooperation with federal immigration enforcement is emerging as a major dividing line between red and blue states — and a ...

A 28-year-old from Othello was sentenced to 59-months in state prison after pleading guilty to receive a lighter sentence.

At least two cases confirmed at detention center for children and their parents in Texas ...

NEWLY released footage showing a grim insight into disgraced Ghislaine Maxwell’s life in prison has been released in the ...

According to the state death report, Pierce was found in his cell unresponsive. Life-saving measures were initiated before Pierce was pronounced deceased.