A week after a prisoner riot that left the Willacy County Correctional Center uninhabitable, the company that ran the troubled facility is laying off scores of employees as inmates were transferred to ...

Jul. 18—RAYMONDVILLE — Willacy County commissioners are entering into negotiations with Hidalgo County more than three months after shutting down a 582-bed prison that had become an economic driver in ...

Dec. 22—RAYMONDVILLE — A new Willacy County commission is taking reign. On Jan. 1, Mario Tijerina, a longtime Raymondville school board member, and retired lawman Ernie Garcia take the oath of office ...

SEBASTIAN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Willacy County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying two men ...

RAYMONDVILLE — In the aftermath of last week’s prisoner uprising that left much of the Willacy County Correctional Center in ruins, local officials are on edge over the potential loss of hundreds of ...

About 50 activists showed up Friday in the tiny South Texas town of Raymondville to protest the resurrection of the controversial immigrant detention facility once known as “Ritmo.” The protesters ...

Willacy County officials, ICE and a private prison company are set to ink a new deal within days that would resurrect one of the nation’s most troubled immigrant detention centers. They called it ...

RAYMONDVILLE - When traditional jobs in agriculture and the oil patch began to shrink, Willacy County saw salvation in prisons and jails. A 540-bed jail opened for federal prisoners in 2003 and a ...

The Willacy County Correctional Center is empty now. The tall security fences and dome-like housing units set out on the coastal prairie have no one inside them. One morning late last month, the ...

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Willacy County, an area which ...

A group of inmates who apparently feared for their safety upon deportation to Mexico may have orchestrated a prison uprising that destroyed much of the Willacy County Correctional Center last month, ...