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

A bill requiring air conditioning in the state’s prisons gained approval from a Texas House panel this week. House Bill 3006, ...

Weeks after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a bill requiring air conditioning in ...

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 ...

On March 25, prison officials found Javier Francisco Villalba-Reyes unresponsive at about 6 a.m. and he was pronounced dead a ...

The men had their death sentences commuted under the Biden administration, but say they are being punished by being ...

“This is a federal judge saying Texas is unconstitutionally ... respond to a request for comment. About 85,000 Texas prison inmates reside in facilities that do not have air conditioning in ...