A new comprehensive analysis of state data shows Texas prisons get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups. The state will be back ...

A district court judge said in March that hot conditions for inmates are “plainly unconstitutional.” Texas lawmakers ended the state’s most recent legislative session without advancing a plan to ...

Men at the Connally Unit Credit: image via Facebook / TDCJ – John B. Connally Unit The Texas Department of Criminal Justice acknowledges that tuberculosis has broken out in one of its largest prisons, ...

Countless inmates will continue languishing in sweltering temperatures because efforts to provide air conditioning throughout Texas’ prison system fell flat. Criminals go to prison to be punished. It ...

Albert Einstein once said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them." As someone incarcerated in a Texas prison, I thought of that when I heard about the ...

The Texas House overwhelmingly passed legislation Thursday night to require air conditioning across the state’s prison system, marking the third time in five years that the lower chamber has approved ...

BRYAN, Texas — Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of the late Jeffrey Epstein, has been quietly transferred to a minimum-security federal prison in Texas, raising questions from victims' ...