Texas legislators heeded that recommendation. The next year, in 2007, they created the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Committee. The committee is composed of House and Senate members and ...

Toon herself spent more than two decades in the criminal justice system, including several years as a juvenile. She said the TJJD board’s focus on staffing shortages is an attempt to mask other ...

Texas’ sprawling prison and criminal justice system is facing a dangerous staffing crisis that puts inmates and staff at risk — and it could soon run out of room to house the projected number ...

With summer temps soaring, Texas prisons rely on cool beds, AC units, and heat protocols—after a judge called current ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas Board of Criminal Justice (TBCJ) unanimously approved its FY2025 operating budget last Friday and finalized the legislative appropriations request (LAR) for ...

A USTIN (KXAN) — A former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice will chair a task force to “guide the safe, ethical, and effective use of [artificial intelligence] in the criminal justice system ...

When asked about the disproportionate number of children in North Texas counties being involved in the juvenile justice system for running away, Sen. Johnson, whose district is in Dallas, said he ...

The Court of Criminal Appeals, Texas’s highest criminal court, does not handle civil cases and plays a vital role in Texas’s criminal justice system.

The justice system for local residents shows far less urgency. It took on about 350 cases last year, a vast majority of them misdemeanors or felony drug possession.

For about three years, University of North Texas criminal justice students have participated in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange. Pictured, from left: Cody Marsh; Willow Hart; Kate Kennedy, Royal ...