A Texarkana federal inmate pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine on Tuesday and was sentenced to 100 ...

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 ...

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

A federal inmate has been sentenced to additional time in prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Abe ...

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

A prison official identified the inmate as Macos Sanchez-Santana ... He was arrested in Texas last year. Federal authorities were not immediately available Wednesday to comment on Villalba ...

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 ...