While working as a detention officer at the Harris County jail, the 22-year-old was caught on video pushing a handcuffed ...

Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...

A bill that would make judges remove the option of bail for certain felony offenders has now been passed to the Texas Senate.

Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...

While this is an issue that spans Texas, a majority of those killed were either in Texas’ largest cities or in East Texas, ...

Texas Senator Joan Huffman, who represents parts of the Houston region, said the bills will be known as "Jocelyn's law" and ...

The Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Wednesday passed a series of bills and constitutional amendments designed to ...

State lawmakers are moving forward on legislation to keep violent undocumented immigrants in jail. That's just one piece of the bail reform package, also known as Senate Bill 9.

David Siegel and Scott McGehee cowrote and co-directed the dramedy based on Sigrid Nunez's National Book Award-winning novel.

Authorities arrest individuals in multiple states for impersonating ICE officers amid heightened immigration enforcement ...