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

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

or Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849, and houses Texas' execution chamber. Two-third of state-run jails and prisons in Texas are not fulled air conditioned. Inmates rights groups are suing to change ...

"It's influential,” Kendrick said. An inmate works outdoors during the hot summer outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 25, 2015. Credit: AP/Rose Baca Texas has more than ...