Extreme heat without AC in Texas prisons is unconstitutionally cruel punishment, judge rules
A November 2022 study by researchers at Brown, Boston and Harvard universities found that 13% — or 271 — of the deaths in Texas prisons without universal AC between 2001 and 2019 may be attributed to ...
Walmart gunman won’t face the death penalty, family says
The removal of the death penalty as an option could lead to a quick guilty plea and life sentence, as happened with federal ...
A Venezuelan in Texas thought his tattoo ‘looked cool.’ His sister says it’s why he was deported
Anyelo Jose Sarabia is one of many Venezuelan migrants who the Trump administration claims is a member of Tren de Aragua. His ...
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Texas prison staff falsified records about temperatures behind bars, internal investigation finds
The investigation, which homed in on recordkeeping at the Mark W. Stiles Unit in Beaumont over the summer of 2022, found ...