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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said its officers used excessive force and have asked the Inspector General to criminally investigate a Sept. 5 incident that saw 13 guards terminated or resign and an inmate still in hospital more than two weeks later.

Guinness World Records certified the world’s largest piñata, created by a group called the Masa collective, a group of local artists.

360 Queen Entertainment appears in court as part of ACLU Texas' lawsuit against a statewide drag ban.

The string of wrecking ball-sized buoys is the centerpiece of what Gov. Greg Abbott calls “Operation Lone Star,” which also includes razor wire on the riverbank and arresting migrants for trespassing. TPR's David Martin Davies takes us by kayak to the barrier and to the people it's trying to keep out.

Inmates say food melts in front of them and claim their cells' temperatures exceed 150 degrees.

Authorities found two migrants dead near Knippa last week. A Honduran national admitted to being the guide that led nearly a dozen people onto the train.

The video, shared with Texas Public Radio by a human rights worker who asked to remain anonymous due to their work with the Mexican government, appeared to show guards at the detention facility walking away as the fire raged.

The shooting took place at the Cielo Vista Mall, which is next to the Walmart where a white supremacist shot and killed 23 people in August 2019.

75 percent of the UT Health study participants saw a significant reduction in symptoms after testing a compressed form of prolonged exposure therapy.

An organizer alleged the prison was retaliating by interfering with the inmates' attempts to contact the outside world.

When a Southern civil rights leader is found dead under strange and suspicious circumstances, there are bound to be questions. That’s what happened in East Texas in 1976 with the death of Frank J. Robinson. The controversial official ruling was suicide, but Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies has found evidence that challenges this narrative and points to the possibility of murder. Here’s part two in his investigative series.

In 1976, a Texas civil rights leader died under mysterious circumstances that today continue to baffle the residents of Palestine. The death of Frank J. Robinson is remembered by many as a miscarriage of justice that needs to be rectified. In the first part of a series of reports Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies investigates.