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Jury Gives Armed Robber Nine Life Sentences

A 20-year-old Fort Worth man received nine life sentences on for committing multiple armed robberies during a two-week period in 2011.

2013/05/09

Ex-Parole Officer Gets Prison For Taking Bribes

A former Texas parole officer has been sentenced to almost two years in federal prison for taking bribes from a man she supervised and not reporting his alleged financial violations.

2013/05/02

Texas Inmate Executed

A Texas inmate was executed Thursday evening for fatally shooting one of three people he and a partner abducted during a convenience store robbery nearly 11 years ago. Richard Cobb, 29, didn’t deny using a 20-gauge shotgun to kill Kenneth Vandever in an East Texas field where two women also were shot and one was raped. He was convicted of capital murder.

2013/04/25

X-Ray showing cell phone inside of an inmate. (credit: Texas Department of Criminal Justice Inspector General)

I-Team: Texas Fighting Back Against Smuggled Prison Cell Phones

Cell phones can fetch more than a thousand dollars inside Texas prisons and have become the most sought after contraband among inmates.

CBS 11–2013/04/01

Texas Prisons Aim To Eliminate Cellphones

he nation’s largest state prison system is turning to electronic weaponry to combat the persistent headache of illegal cellphones smuggled to inmates.

2013/03/15

A 2008 photo of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sitting in Wayne County, Michigan Circuit Court for sentencing. (credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

North Texan & Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Convicted, Jailed Until Sentence

Jurors in a city buffeted by financial crisis convicted former Detroit Mayor and current Grand Prairie resident Kwame Kilpatrick on corruption charges Monday.

2013/03/11

Ex-Computer Game Retailer VP Sentenced To Prison

The former corporate spokesman for computer game retailer Gamestop has been sentenced to prison after admitting to defrauding the company out of almost $2 million.

2013/03/07

Mugshot of Luis Alfredo Perez. (credit: Tarrant Co. District Attorney's Office)

Man Gets 50 Years For Killing Ex-Girlfriend’s Mom

A judge has sentenced a North Texas man to 50 years in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend’s mother.

CBSDFW.COM–2013/02/20

Leaf Could Serve Texas Time In Montana Prison

The Texas prosecutor who brokered a 10-year probationary sentence for former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf in 2010 says he is working on a plea deal that would allow the Montana native to serve his sentence in his home state.

2013/02/05

The inside of a jail cell. (credit: AP Photo)

Texas Inmate Ordered Retried In ’80 ‘Waiting Ever Since’

Texas prisoner Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when he was told his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get a new trial. Hartfield was moved off death row, but 32 years later is still waiting for that new trial.

2013/01/04

Texas death chamber execution gurney. (credit: AP)

Report: Handfull Of States Have Bulk Of Executions

Just four states carried out more than three-fourths of the executions in the United States this year, while another 23 states have not put an inmate to death in 10 years, an anti-capital punishment group reports.

2012/12/18

Lockhart Sentenced In Mortgage Fraud Scheme

Former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Eugene Lockhart Jr. has been sentenced to 41/2 years in federal prison for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme to swindle millions of dollars from home lenders.

2012/12/12