For example, data from the Texas Department of Criminal ... Many advocates for criminal justice and legal experts think the current system doesn't achieve this goal. To improve things, they ...

RELATED: Federal judge rules prison heat conditions are unconstitutional Texas Department of Criminal Justice Director Bryan ... On the state’s current trajectory, it would take at least 25 ...

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Matthew Lee Johnson, who was sentenced to death for a convenience store robbery in which he set an elderly clerk on ...

The bill mandates that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice purchase and install climate control systems to ensure temperatures are maintained between 65 and 85 degrees in certain areas.

Fans hang in a hall's corner at Louie C. Powledge Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men located in Anderson County in Palestine, TX on Thursday, October 21, 2021. Lawmakers ...

The bill would have mandated that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice purchase and install climate control systems to ensure temperatures are maintained between 65 and 85 degrees in certain ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – For a third consecutive time, a bill requiring prisons to have air conditioning has likely died in the Texas Senate. House Bill 3006, by state Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg ...

A Texas man was executed on Tuesday evening 13 years after brutally killing a beloved grandma when he set her on fire at a gas station. Matthew Johnson, 49, was convicted of the heinous murder of ...

Johnson, 49, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m., according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In his final statement, Johnson apologized to the family of ...

Matthew Lee Johnson was killed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice In Huntsville, located about 70 miles north of Houston. He was pronounced dead at 6: ...