Nine Louisiana residents have been sentenced to prison terms after a drug trafficking investigation in Avoyelles Parish, ...

A Houston woman has been ordered to federal prison for possessing and distributing numerous illegal drugs between Houston and ...

Robert Earl Cochran Jr., 63, of Alvin, received a 300-month federal prison sentence for distribution and possession of child ...

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

A Houston mother has been laid to rest decades after getting justice for her daughter. Harriet Semander's daughter, Elena, was strangled to death by a prolific serial killer. The mother fought to keep ...

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

A Montgomery man has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison on drug conspiracy charges, after having cocaine brought ...

Even though his jury trial was slated to begin Monday morning, Alex Scot Fisher entered a guilty plea to felony murder and ...

High-security prisons across California have tightly restricted movement, calls and visits while officials probe a surge in ...

Texas’ prison population is projected to increase ... even though Sen. Borris Miles, D-Houston, expressed concern that the bill would allow prosecutors to incarcerate impoverished families.