AUSTIN (KXAN) — A former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice will chair a task force to “guide the safe, ethical, and effective use of [artificial intelligence] in the criminal justice system,” ...

In late April, during a Capitol press conference in advance of a daylong meeting of stakeholders – cops, judges, lawmakers, professors of law, and exonerees – for a forum on wrongful convictions, ...

In Texas, people want to see fairness when it comes to crime and punishment. Justice should treat everyone equally, regardless of who they are or where they come from. But what if the system isn't as ...

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The audit found that the Texas Commission on Jail Standards missed key inspections and left prisoner complaints unresolved. (Yfat Yossifor | KERA) The state agency responsible for overseeing county ...

DALLAS — Kelli Jones remembers the first time she saw her daughter in shackles. The then 14-year-old was recovering from a drug overdose in a North Texas children’s hospital after spending four days ...

While our great state of Texas has made some remarkable reforms to the juvenile justice system, that progress has stalled over the last decade. The closure of nine youth prisons − the last of which ...

Texas lawmakers passed the first raise for state judges in more than 10 years in the last hours of the 89th Legislature on Monday — after a dispute over the bill’s effect on legislators’ pensions ...