Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

More than 80,000 Texas prisoners live in facilities that lack air conditioning. They have former state senator and Houston ...

Prosecutors said the victims' families trusted Jeffrey Hitchcock to care for the children. Instead, he subjected them to ...

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

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the ...

Chowdhury, now 33, then called 911, telling a dispatcher someone broke into their home and his wife “got in the way” as he ...

A prison sentence has been issued in the 2022 killing of a San Antonio teen over a THC cartridge. The deceased teen was the ...

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

The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against ...

A federal judge found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but did not order the state to begin ...

Texan authorities have been criticized over extreme heat in their prison system, where temperatures can routinely rise above ...