Howard Dontay Celestine, 42, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to murder, aggravated assault, manufacture/delivery of a controlled ...

BEAUMONT, Texas (KETK)– 16 people were arrested in East Texas after a wide-spread meth trafficking conspiracy. According to ...

An Orange, Texas, man, who is a now-twice convicted armed kidnapper, has been sentenced to federal prison, announced Acting U ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas has announced that 79-year-old Putnam Darwin Richardson, of ...

A federal judge has sentenced a man from Orange to 24 1/2 years in prison for kidnapping a Beaumont attorney and holding him for $1 million ransom.Putnam Darwin ...

Putnam Richardson has been sentenced to over 24 years in prison for kidnapping Beaumont attorney Mel Shelander ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

A man from Orange, Texas, is set to serve several years in federal prison for kidnapping an attorney at gunpoint who defended him on kidnapping charges 40 years ago.

With continuous bargaining efforts from the Council of Prison Locals, workers say bipartisan bills to improve were safety ...

BEAUMONT, Texas – Sixteen individuals have been arrested and charged in connection with a federal methamphetamine trafficking ...

Stiles Unit in Beaumont in 2022 found prison staff "recreated" prison temperature ... The investigation is tied to a 2023 federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending the rest ...