Changes Weighed To Federal Program For Ailing, Aging Inmates
The federal panel that sets sentencing policy is weighing changes to a program that permits an early prison release for certain elderly and sick inmates.
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The federal panel that sets sentencing policy is weighing changes to a program that permits an early prison release for certain elderly and sick inmates.
Prosecutors say a 22-year-old East Texas babysitter sentenced to life in prison for molesting two boys gave the victims prizes to stay quiet about the sex abuse.
The 20-year-old son of an Episcopal priest has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 2015 killings of his parents and 5-year-old brother at their Texas apartment.
Benjamin Newman accelerated his vehicle directly into the men he had just had the confrontation with, killing one.
"This was the biggest drug den in Ciudad Juarez," Chihuahua state prison director Jorge Bissuet Galarza said.
California prison officials say former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips has been found dead in his prison cell, and they suspect suicide.
A developmentally disabled teenage girl was deprived of food and held against her will in a hotel room.
The last of the 10 people serving time for the 1991 gay-bashing death of a Houston banker has left prison on parole.
A Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison for a 2014 slaying using an ice pick.
Derrick Mitchell must serve at least one-half of that sentence before becoming eligible for parole.
'Texas has taken significant steps to eliminate prison rape;' these are the words Governor Abbott wrote in a compliance letter to U.S. Attorney General, Loretta Lynch.
Drug criminals once described by prosecutors as unrepentant repeat offenders are among those poised to benefit from new sentencing guidelines that are shrinking punishments for thousands of federal prisoners.
Whole Foods will stop selling products made using a prison labor program after a protest at one of its stores in Texas.
Wade Lawrence must forfeit $1.5 million as part of his guilty plea Tuesday. The 43-year-old Lawrence also faces fines topping $250,000.
The names of those killed and injured were not immediately released.
A North Texas man is going to prison after being found guilty for the continued sexual abuse of a child under 14 years of age.
An estimated 100,000 people are involved in gangs, according to a new Texas DPS report.
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose supporters contend was sentenced unfairly because of his race.
A 34-year-old man named Luis Vasquez-Sanchez, was sentenced Wednesday morning by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to 100 months in federal prison.
A South Texas woman has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison for trying to lure a man into having sex with one of her young female relatives.
Britt Michael Gresham, 24, and Brian Keith Hodge, 43, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to 78 months and 63 months, respectively, in federal prison
A Texas prisons spokesman says inmate beat guard to death during cell transfer.
President Barack Obama cut the prison sentences of four Texans and 42 other non-violent offenders on Monday, including 14 who were serving life sentences, saying "their punishments didn't fit the crime."
Five more Aryan Brotherhood of Texas white supremacist members or their associates are going to federal prison for running drugs.
Texas prisons, on average, see one drug-related death per year. California, on the other hand, has seen 150 inmates die of overdoses since 2006 -- with a high of 24 in 2013. Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard told lawmakers that drugs are "rampant in [California] prisons".
