A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional.” ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — US judge rules extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutionally cruel but stops short of requiring air conditioning.
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 ...
Injustice sat down with Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer housed at the Lane Murray Unit, the largest women’s prison in ...
A Texas Tribune analysis revealed that at least 41 people had died inside Texas prisons in 2023 during the state's ...
A federal judge didn’t buy a Texas man’s claim he was the lawful common-law partner of a 12-year-old girl with whom he ...
Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.
The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...
The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, ...
The family of Erik and Lyle Menendez on Thursday rejected claims by the Los Angeles district attorney that the brothers hadn’t appropriately taken responsibility for the ...
The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of ... told USA TODAY on Feb. 26 during an interview at a Texas state prison north of Houston. “How can I not be angry at the corruption ...
The Justice Department is resisting a federal judge’s demand for more information about flights that took deportees to El Salvador.