WOODVILLE, Texas — Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials are investigating the death of a 61-year-old inmate in Woodville. Correctional officers discovered Jimmy White, 61, in his cell in the ...

FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas -- The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is moving to fire seven employees for failing to check on a 16-year-old boy who died by suicide last month, according to a prison ...

PALESTINE, Texas (KLTV) - As of Thursday evening, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Beto Unit in Palestine had 128 inmates who tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Fifteen employees and ...

UPDATE: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice reported Tuesday morning that water and water pressure has been restored at the George Beto Unit state prison in Tennessee Colony near Palestine. One ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced that the Clements Unit is locked down. According to TDCJ, the lockdown aims to address a recent surge in dangerous ...

NAVASOTA, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says on January 9, an employee at the Luther Unit was arrested after bringing contraband items into the facility. TDCJ says Benson Lu ...

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BRAZORIA, Texas (KLTV) - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is searching for a convicted sexual abuse inmate who escaped the Clemens Unit in Brazoria. The escapee, Robert Yancy, 39, was last ...

BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is searching for an inmate who escaped the Clemens Unit located in Brazoria, Texas. Officials are searching for 39-year-old ...

LOVELADY, Texas (KTRE) - A Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) employee assigned to the Eastham Unit in Lovelady has died following a battle with COVID-19. The Texas Department of Criminal ...

LOVELADY, Texas (KTRE) - The Texas Board of Criminal Justice voted Friday morning to rename the Eastham Unit which will become the J. Dale Wainwright Unit. The over 12,000-acre prison campus with 283 ...