The proposed expansion includes seven new non-felony district courts: three new civil courts, three family courts and one ...

Patrick and State Sen. Joan Huffman say the Senate has passed bail reform bills with bipartisan support numerous times, but ...

Over the last four years, 489 murder cases were dismissed. Almost a third of those dismissals were due to insufficient ...

Harris County Sheriff's Office leadership is trying to keep quiet on email conversations they had with Houston Police Department ahead of the hiring of a former police officer at the center of ...

The initiative aims to boost attendance and, ultimately, ensure a fairer and more representative justice system. With this new approach, Harris County officials ... the Center for Juror Studies ...

The current Hale County JJAEP building on Houston Street is owned by Plainview Independent School District. Built in 1940, the structure once housed Coronado Junior High, was a home economics and ...

Herklotz, 54, joined Dallas County in February 2023 after leaving Harris County ... officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which oversees the state’s prison system.

A Harris County judge has been removed from the case of a man convicted of killing six members of his ex-wife's family after prosecutors alleged she was biased toward him as he sought a brain ...

young people who are or previously have been involved in the justice system can take vocational education courses at the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department’s The Opportunity Center campus.

Oklahoma County criminal justice will be envied, and no longer condemned, with completion of the new Oklahoma County ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low.