In 1975, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape explored pernicious cultural and legal attitudes about rape and helped debunk the long-held view that victims were partly to blame.

The decision reverses course on the use of consent decrees to ensure accountability of law enforcement agencies. It comes days before the anniversary of George Floyd's murder by a police officer.

Peace Officers Memorial Day is Thursday.

A 24-year-old Shreveport woman was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison by a federal judge for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, including against USAA Bank — formerly based in San Antonio and now located in Phoenix.

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time to substantially enlarge and rebuild Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.

More than 1,000 criminal cases will be reviewed in Texas because of the problems with Qiagen DNA tests.

Texas Public Radio spent more than a year analyzing more than 1,200 deaths from abuse and neglect between 2018 and 2023. The project, funded by the Pulitzer Center, brings stories of children who died when the state of Texas failed to intervene. TPR Accountability reporter Paul Flahive uncovered a child welfare system so intent on reducing its contact with troubled families that children have routinely been left with violent, unstable, drug-abusing parents.

It reported that 41% of all mass shooters had a history of domestic violence.

Moises Mendoza was convicted of murder in 2005 for killing a Farmersville woman and later burning her body.

In Texas and many other states, lethal injection is used for executions. The new book Secrets of the Killing State by Corinna Barrett Lain pulls back the curtain of secrecy surrounding lethal injection. The author claims there is gross incompetence by woefully inept executioners and a state indifference to the fate of the condemned.