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

Prison staff and inmates move through the Darrington Unit's main hallway on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Credit: Jolie McCullough/The Texas Tribune ...

A federal judge ruled that extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional" – but fell short of requiring the state to install air conditioning. People ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

A years-long fight over the temperature inside Texas prisons has entered a new phase. In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that keeping inmates in ...

“It sends an incredibly powerful message.” FILE – An inmate works outdoors during the hot summer outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 25, 2015. (Rose Baca/The Dallas ...

Jon Rosenthal, D-Houston, are identical and would require each cellblock, dormitory and common area in Texas prisons to be equipped with an air conditioning unit. Temperatures would have to be ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas ... in prisons for years and has not addressed the issue. In 2018, the state was ordered to install air conditioning at a unit for ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Housing Texas prison ... to install air conditioning in one notoriously hot prison called the Wallace Pack Unit, a geriatric prison. Sick or elderly prisoners were also ...

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering ... to install air conditioning in one notoriously hot prison called the Wallace Pack Unit, a geriatric prison. Sick or elderly prisoners were also ...

BURNET COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — On Pam Stevenson’s drive home from teaching a bible study class at the Ellen Halbert Unit Women’s Prison, a message she couldn’t ignore hit her as she ...