The five bills that would require complete air conditioning in state prisons haven’t had a hearing yet, and the money set for ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system ...

A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional.” ...

On Aug. 6, 2023, Texas inmate John Castillo was found unresponsive in his sweltering, 94-degree prison cell at the Alfred D. Hughes Unit in Gatesville, according to court documents. Castillo had ...

Texas Prison Community Advocates (TPCA) are raising awareness over prison conditions in Texas and making a big plea as the ...

The Angels and the man convicted of helping to cause the death of one of their players now appear to be working together.

Still, about two thirds of Texas’ prison inmates reside in facilities ... occluding the heat inside some cell blocks. An internal investigation also found that TDCJ has falsified temperatures ...

Inside the state’s sprawling and remote ICE detention centers, immigrants feel like they’re ‘screaming into a void’ thousands ...

A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ordering a fix before summer in what has become of the ...

In Georgia, prison officials face a federal lawsuit from the family of a man who said he died after he was left in an outdoor cell without water, shade or ice in July 2023. The Texas case will ...