“Every time something would happen, [police] would pull me in,” Wood told the Texas Observer ... men from his time at the Eastham Unit, a sprawling men’s prison in Houston County since ...

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

A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to ...

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

TEXAS, TX - Two-thirds of Texas state run jails and prisons (roughly 100) are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing ...

This is not the first time Texas has been sued over the heat in its state prisons. A similar case covering just one unit resulted in the prison agency installing A/C there and making other quality ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature ... The report cited by KUT found prison staff at the Mark W. Stiles Unit in Beaumont "recreated" logs from the summer of 2022 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.

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 Morning News via AP, File) AUSTIN, Texas (AP ...

This is not the first time Texas has been sued over the heat in its state prisons. A similar case covering just one unit resulted in the prison agency installing A/C there and making other quality ...