Case Dropped Against Polygamist Leader Serving Life In Texas
Utah prosecutors are dropping charges against a polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas in a separate case.
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Utah prosecutors are dropping charges against a polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas in a separate case.
More than 200 federal prison inmates in North Texas may soon be released. The move comes because of a new law that erases the sentencing disparity between those convicted of offenses involving crack versus powdered cocaine.
A 48-year-old Dallas man convicted of two armed bank robberies in Central Texas in 2010 has been sentenced to 100 years in prison.
Texas prison officials say they're stopping special last meals for condemned inmates facing execution after an elaborate request from a convicted killer in a notorious dragging death prompted complaints.
Sitting in a circle at the Dallas County Jail one evening, 20 women tell their stories of heartache, danger and hope. One woman describes how she's been abused in a relationship. Another admits to addiction and prostitution.
Behind the razor wire-topped fences of Ferguson prison and other Texas penitentiaries are 5,205 inmates branded the baddest of the bad -- dubbed so devious they are locked in one-man cells for 23 hours a day often for decades.
A Houston man has been jailed on four counts of criminally negligent homicide after his car swerved into oncoming traffic, killing four people on motorcycles.
Texas State Senator John Whitmire calls it the most unusual phone call of his life. "Nothing shocks me anymore, but this would probably take first prize for the biggest, unbelievable story," said the Senator from Houston. "No Texan should have to worry about getting a call from an inmate."
Last year, Jesse Prindel was sitting in prison, serving a sentence for cocaine possession. Now, Prindel is working toward a better life.
The court ruled in a suit filed by Texas prison inmate Harvey Sossamon, who complained that he was denied the chance to participate in Christian worship services.
Texas lawmakers have discussed plans to hire private medical vendors to care for state prisoners.
A 20-year-old sex offender is returning to prison for fatally injuring the 2-year-old son of his fiancee last year.
Texas lawmakers have questioned higher education for inmates who then do not repay the state.
A Dallas bank robber who abided by a teller's request to provide two forms of identification before she could give him money is going to prison.
A review finds Texas could face a shortage of as many as 12,000 inmate beds within two years.
Thousands of convicted criminals could soon be let out of Texas prisons as part of a new proposal that trades clemency for cash.
