In a letter to the warden, inmates wrote, “If there was ever a time to show mercy and compassion, this is it.”

Time in Carswell's prison medical facility can be a death sentence for women prisoners. By BETTY BRINK: Fort Worth Weekly This is the prison at Carswell. ...We got an inmate who is not breathing.

The medical neglect in our prisons is too-often accepted by the public as just another price paid by those who commit crimes.

The last time Melissa Ross saw her daughter, Loukeithia “Kikki” Felts, she could barely breathe. “She was in a wheelchair, trying to breathe in deep, gulping gasps. She told me she was in a lot of...

Studies suggest that incarcerated women have higher rates of medical and psychiatric disorders than men. But correctional health care policy has largely neglected their needs, particularly of those...

They committed sex acts with inmates they supervised inside Fort Worth federal prisons.But the two former prison guards did not have to register as...

George Gasich carries himself with the air of a successful businessman as he walks through the lobby of a downtown Fort Worth hotel. The 59-year-old came to the city not for an executive meeting but...