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About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.
Weeks after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a bill requiring air conditioning in ...
A bill requiring air conditioning in the state’s prisons gained approval from a Texas House panel this week. House Bill 3006, ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...