Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar and his team face mounting criticism about the jail. During a tour, they showed how they're working to make fixes.

High winds and dry conditions have significantly heightened the fire risk across Texas, prompting officials to warn of "extreme fire danger" in West Texas, stretching from the Big Bend region ...

A federal judge has ruled that the heat levels in Texas state prisons are "plainly unconstitutional," but has not ordered the ...

A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional.” ...

Last month, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador offered to imprison convicted criminals from the United States in his country’s massive prison facilities. Then this month, the United States ...

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BEAUMONT, Texas — Staff with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) falsified records about how hot it got in at least one Texas prison, according to an internal investigation tied to a ...

Two-thirds of state-run jails and prisons, including the Texas State Penitentiary at in Huntsville, shown here, not fulled air conditioned. Inmates rights groups suing to change that have made public ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited ...

The feds say they’re “confident” he’s a paid-up gang member of the violent Venezuelan prison gang. Jerce Reyes Barrios was in the US as a professional soccer player and refugee of ...