Posted on · On Monday, the family was shown video footage of the incident that led up to the death of Jovian Motley in Wainwright prison. However, their attorney says the footage was "highly obstructed."
Posted on · Rabbani, 58, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1988 in the shooting death of 21-year-old Mohammed Jikar Hasan. His 1994 request for a new punishment phase of his trial was granted earlier this fall, and Harris County prosecutors are no longer asking for the death penalty as Rabbani is in a vegetative state, according to his new defense attorney.
Posted on · Prison book programs have been sending free books to Texas prisons for years, but recently, they've been told they're no longer allowed to under a Texas Department of Criminal Justice policy they say they've never heard of before.
Posted on · Murphy, who was convicted of the 2000 carjacking and murder of an elderly woman, is one of at least two Jewish individuals on Texas’ death row.
Posted on · Armstrong, who was found guilty Aug. 16 in Harris County, was transferred Saturday to the George Beto Unit in East Texas after spending less than a week at a facility in the Corpus Christi area.
Posted on · The department is conducting comprehensive searches for contraband in response to a rise in violence connected to illegal drug activity. The lockdown will be lifted as searches are completed.
Posted on · Texas Public Radio reporter Paul Flahive offers insight into what people in Texas prisons have experienced this summer.
Posted on · No injuries were reported among prisoners or staff, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, who said everyone at the facility was accounted for and in a secure location.
Posted on · Stifling heat has killed inmates and exacerbated employee turnover in Texas prisons. But funding for air conditioning was whittled down in the draft budget released Thursday.
Posted on · Fratta was convicted of killing his wife, Farah. She was found shot twice in the head after she filed for divorce.
Posted on · On Monday's show: NASA's Artemis I mission returned to Earth on Sunday. We discuss how the mission went and what was learned from it. And we examine how a lack of proper staffing and security contributed to a deadly Texas prison escape.
Posted on · The research from Texas A&M University shows how many incarcerated individuals and staff are suffering from heat-related illnesses and death.
Posted on · Conroe police said the van was transporting an inmate and three guards, all of whom were hurt in the collision.
Posted on · After years of warnings about broken fire alarms, two men have now died in blazes at Texas prisons.
Posted on · The Texas Department of Criminal Justice began moving incarcerated people from the Dolph Briscoe Unit in Dilley on Wednesday as part of the governor's Operation Lone Star initiative, announced in March.