The Texas House Committee on Corrections has approved House Bill 3006, which requires prisons to have air conditioning installed by the end of 2032, providing $100 million over two phases.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill to create a DOGE-inspired office to oversee and dissolve rules and regulations ...

House Bill 3006, by Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, would require the installation of climate control in phases to be completed by ...

The Star-Telegram emailed members of the Sheriff’s Office’s media team just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22. Spokesperson Robbie Hoy did not respond until the Star-Telegram sent a follow-up email ...

Norfolk Southern reached an agreement with one of the two companies it has been trying to force to help pay for the $600 ...

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Many Texas prisons, especially the older ones, are made of brick and lack air passages and operational windows. The facilities function like pizza ovens, trapping heat and creating conditions ...

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 ...

About two thirds of Texas’ prison inmates reside in facilities that are not fully air conditioned in housing areas, and indoor temperatures routinely top 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Credit ...

Officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which oversees the state’s 101 prison facilities, asked lawmakers for $118 million over the next biennium to install air conditioning in ...

BURNET COUNTY, Texas (KXAN ... had been volunteering at the prison for about 10 years. The Ellen Halbert Unit is a substance abuse felony punishment facility for women who are in recovery.