Dawson County sheriff’s office is hiring a full-time jailer position to combat staffing issues and provide better benefits, ...

A federal law enforcement source told CBS News that local police arrested eight people. The official said some of those ...

Several armed people were taken into custody after officers responded to a report of a suspicious person outside the ...

Andrew Hunter, 23, of Mount Pleasant, pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal officer and was sentenced to 18 additional ...

On June 12, Congressman Weber reintroduced the "Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act" that was originally introduced in ...

A North Texas police officer is recovering after being shot on Friday night outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Five corrections officers at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester are facing felony charges after surveillance video shows the alleged beating of an inmate.

Texas Tech graduate, Andrew Hughes, has been officially sworn in as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department Housing and ...

WATERLOO — A Waterloo man has died while serving time in prison for assaulting an officer and drug charges. Kahlan Bradford ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what Independence Day means to them.

Recent weeks have seen the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” program kick into overdrive.