Both federal and state prosecutors took the death penalty out of consideration for a self-described white supremacist who ...

Jon Rosenthal, D-Houston, are identical and would require each cellblock, dormitory and common area in Texas prisons to be equipped with an air conditioning unit. Temperatures would have to be ...

Those findings were referenced in a 91-page ruling issued last week by Austin-based U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, who opined that the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons is ...

A years-long fight over the temperature inside Texas prisons has entered a new phase. In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that keeping inmates in ...

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering ... to install air conditioning in one notoriously hot prison called the Wallace Pack Unit, a geriatric prison. Sick or elderly prisoners were also ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Housing Texas prison ... to install air conditioning in one notoriously hot prison called the Wallace Pack Unit, a geriatric prison. Sick or elderly prisoners were also ...

“It sends an incredibly powerful message.” FILE – An inmate works outdoors during the hot summer outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 25, 2015. (Rose Baca/The Dallas ...