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

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

“Texas is the largest prison system in the country and the judge ... The Louisiana Department of Correction did not ...

Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.

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 ...

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Citing President Trump's policies, Congressman David Lowe calls for the transfer of thousands of incarcerated immigrants to ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly ... deaths from multiple causes in 2023 and that prison staff and inmates sometimes fall ill from high temperatures.

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that ... but none of the bills have received a hearing yet. “This is a federal judge saying Texas is unconstitutionally housing people ...