The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has recommended another correctional officer be fired, saying she called prison escapee Arcade Joseph Comeaux Jr.'s ex-wife at the inmate's request. Cynthia ...

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Three families, whose relatives died while in Texas prisons during a summer heat wave, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. District Court Thursday against the Texas Department of ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Workforce Solutions Southeast Texas is inviting job seekers to a hiring event Thursday focused on opportunities with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The event will ...

Until federal immigration agents declared the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi a deportable alien, the Kenyan native was working as a Texas prison guard, with his employment authorization vetted by the ...

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Inmates from left, Richard Hernandez, Arnulfo Ayala, and William Baucum in the Bartlett Innovation Unit in Bartlett, Texas on Nov. 21, 2024. Credit: Lorianne Willett ...