AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) correctional officer was arrested after she was accused of performing a sexual act with an inmate at the Travis County State Jail ...

The Texas Legislature should give great weight to a series of recommendations aimed at improving the Texas Department of ...

“TDCJ does not have a hiring problem – it has a retention problem,” Ormsby said. Over the past decade, the agency has hired about 74,000 corrections officers – and lost 72,000.

As a result, the agency said it is implementing an immediate lockdown and comprehensive search of all correctional facilities within TDCJ. “These incidents have heightened concerns regarding the ...

The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities ... unfilled at some Texas prisons and that TDCJ staff has a 26% turnover rate.

Members of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, along with agency officials, officers, and staff, gathered for a ...