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

But U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman's warnings to Texas to act after finding the conditions in the prison system ...

and houses Texas' execution chamber. Two-third of state-run jails and prisons in Texas are not fulled air conditioned. Inmates rights groups are suing to change that. (Michael Minasi | KUT News ...

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HOUSTON — A former vice president of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is going to prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud. Michael Wayne Galvan, 61, was arrested in October 2023 on ...

Thanks to reforms, the Texas prison population dwindled, and the troubled, privately managed Dawson State Jail near downtown Dallas closed in 2013. Now Texas is planning to end its decades-long ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside are dangerous to inmates and staff, according to an internal ...

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Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons ... the 15th annual Texas Tribune Festival, Texas’ breakout ideas and politics event happening Nov. 13–15 in downtown Austin.