How Texas prisons care for pregnant women: Housing, restraints and programs

For pregnant women who are spending time in prison, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains specialty programs and ...
Houston Public Media

Robert Roberson is again approaching execution in Texas in shaken baby case

Robert Roberson at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 19, 2023. LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) — Robert Roberson was calm and hopeful as he pondered his mortality ...
KVUE

Texas prison agency names senior official as its next chief

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Bobby Lumpkin will be the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s next executive director, leading one of the largest state agencies that is also in the midst of a correctional ...
Amarillo Globe-News

Two TDCJ employees arrested at Clements Unit after inmate’s death

Two Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees have been arrested in connection with the death of an inmate at the William P. “Bill” Clements Unit in Amarillo, according to jail records and a ...
New York Post

Prison guards charged after inmate dies locked inside burning jail cell: ‘Refused to help’

A pair of Texas prison guards were fired and arrested after allegedly leaving an inmate to die locked inside a burning and smoke-filled cell, according to reports. Lieutenant William Eugene Romero, 33 ...