A TDCJ spokesperson said two inmates were rushed to the hospital after an altercation led to a stabbing at the C.T. Terrell ...

Texas already bans 10,827 book titles from prisoners, including The Color Purple, Alex Cross, and ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky ...

Samuel Lee Thomas IV, 26, pleaded guilty to conspiring to assault an inmate at TDCJ Hodge Unit in Rusk. He faces up to 10 ...

A former corrections officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is awaiting a sentencing hearing after ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A substance abuse counselor at a Texas prison facility in Beaumont was arrested Monday after admitting to accepting $1,000 to smuggle papers into the institution. Additional ...

AUSTIN, Texas — THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – To cool the state’s entire prison system, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has said it would cost more than $1 billion. But so far, TDCJ has not asked the ...

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A Texas prison program uses Islamic mentorship to reduce recidivism.

The Justice Department announced today that a former corrections officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) ...