THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative push to require air conditioning in every state prison has not gained ...

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...

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Seven corrections officers at the Barry B. Telford federal correctional facility in New Boston were arrested Wednesday in an ...

About two thirds of Texas’ prison inmates ... about 11,000 units. Even if lawmakers grant that request, millions more will be needed to get to the at least $1.1 billion the TDCJ says they ...

ALL INFORMATION IS PROVIDED THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE:On Wednesday, April 9, law enforcement officers served ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells ... The TDCJ has put that funding toward installing more air conditioning units. Collier has said the ...

FILE – An inmate works outdoors during the hot summer outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville ... On Thursday, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said it has asked lawmakers for $ ...

Studies show that temperatures reaching 140 degrees in the antiquated red-brick Texas prisons ... to continue TDCJ’s ongoing installation of air conditioning in more units and housing areas ...