About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.
US District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday held Wednesday that the extreme heat in Texas prisons is 'plainly unconstitutional' while denying a temporary injunction request to install air ...
A federal judge found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional” but did not order the state to begin ...
A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to ...
Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.
Injustice sat down with Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer housed at the Lane Murray Unit, the largest women’s prison in ...
Dallas County prosecutors are trying to get Heath Harris removed from Randy Halprin's defense team because he attended the ...
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, ...
A man accused of killing Joel Osteen's great-aunt waited almost two decades in the Harris County Jail without a trial.
Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...