As clips of Texas lawmakers breaking gavels go viral on social media, the Statesman set about to find out where they're made.

Matthew Lee Johnson was convicted of killing Nancy Harris in Garland, Texas in May 2012. Harris died five days after Johnson ...

Texas on Tuesday is set to execute Matthew Johnson, a Dallas County man who admitted to killing a 76-year-old convenience ...

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) inmate called in a bomb threat to the Hillsboro Elementary School, according to ...

Lawmakers passed 79-39 House Bill 3006 by Terry Canales, D-Edinburg. If the Legislature or the federal government allocates ...

The 89-43 vote comes less than two months after an Austin federal judge declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly ...

State-run prisons would be required to have air conditioning by the end of 2032 under a bill advanced by the Texas House on ...

About 30% of dioceses, Spicer said, reported having at least one religious worker forced to leave the country because of the ...

The Texas House has passed a bill that would require state prisons to have air conditioning. The bill would require the Texas ...

The bill would require the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to install air conditioning at each of its facilities by the ...

Police say a warrant will be sought for the 31-year-old inmate, who was not identified and remains in TDCJ custody.