POLK COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) -A correctional officer is now on the other side of the bars after she was accused of sexually interacting with an inmate at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit. Charlicia Pearl ...

Convicted child killer Tanner Horner will spend the rest of his life at one of the most brutal death row prisons after being sentenced to die by a Texas jury this week. Horner will rot away at the ...

A global law firm with an office in Houston filed a class action lawsuit Thursday alleging Texas's prison conditions and policies violate the state and federal constitutional rights of their clients ...

HOUSTON - State Sen. John Whitmire blasted the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, saying Friday the agency must do a better job of curbing contraband after a death row chaplain admitted he posted ...

The former FedEx delivery driver pleaded guilty to killing seven-year-old Athena Strand. Horner was delivering the Texas girl’s Christmas present (a box of Barbie dolls) to her home on 20 November ...

The inmate at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston had already donned his purple graduation gown, but he wasn’t quite sure how to work the mortar board or the attached tassel.

HOUSTON — A group of death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Texas prison system over its policy of mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement for all prisoners who are ...

AUSTIN, TX A Polk County grand jury also indicted 30-year-old Richard Lee Tabler on a felony retaliation charge for threatening to kill state Sen. John Whitmire of Houston. Polk County is home to the ...

Death row transfer: Tanner Horner has been moved from Tarrant County Jail to the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, where male death row inmates are held. Appeals process begins: By law, ...

Dozens of bikers dressed up in vests and ties as part of the ‘Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride’ in Tyler Sunday, which aims to raise awareness for men’s mental health and prostate cancer. Every May, ...