Jail and Corrections

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (472+ words) ATLANTA - A man federal prosecutors say helped run a major cocaine-smuggling and money-laundering network tied to the Sinaloa and Beltran-Leyva cartels has been sentenced to nearly 19 years in prison. Roberto Lopez, also known as Shrek and NWA, was sentenced to…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1377+ words) Access to agency-led treatment programs in Texas prisons has been historically limited to those already approved for parole. This article was originally...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (898+ words) Prison staff and inmates move through the Darrington Unit's main hallway on July 12, 2017. Texas’ prison agency has asked the Legislature for $298 million...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (454+ words) LOS ANGELES – Erik and Lyle Menendez will be before a parole board again next March, about 17 months earlier than expected. The brothers were originally sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for the 1989 fatal shootings of their father, Jose Menendez, and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (507+ words) by Jaie Avila / News 4 San Antonio Bexar County Commissioners are facing painful budget cuts to reduce a big deficit including no cost of living increase for employees. But one expense that keeps growing is deputy overtime at the Bexar County…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (203+ words) SAN ANTONIO – A man was sentenced to nearly four decades in prison in connection with a fatal 2024 shooting, the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release. Cristan Villalobos was sentenced to 38 years and six months in prison…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (111+ words) KSAT SAN ANTONIO – The Bexar County jail spent Saturday on backup power generators, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, as one of the many customers impacted by CPS Energy outages across San Antonio. >> LIVE UPDATES: San Antonio-area power outages…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (522+ words) WASHINGTON – A Massachusetts woman who told police that she brought homemade firebombs to the U.S. Capitol to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was sentenced on Tuesday to just over six years in prison. Riley English, a 26-year-old transgender woman, said…...

4+ week, 4+ hour ago   (662+ words) For the second time in less than three years, disgraced former San Antonio attorney Chris Pettit appeared before a federal judge and admitted to stealing tens of millions of dollars from his clients. But this time, Pettit and federal prosecutors…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (644+ words) Ghaith Alsayed And Abby Sewell DAMASCUS – The death of a young man with a serious medical condition who was arrested and allegedly beaten by Syrian security forces has stirred up dark memories of torture and other abuse in detention centers…...