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

Many Texas prisons do not have air conditioning, and now a judge is siding with prisoners who say those conditions are unconstitutional. We look at why the judge did not order the state to immediately ...

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

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

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

FILE - Walls Unit in Huntsville prison is where lethal injections are carried out on inmates. (Photo by Jerry Cabluck/Sygma via Getty Images) Big picture view: Lethal injection is carried out by ...

Texas’ prison population is projected to increase by about 10% over the next five years, according to the Legislative Budget Board, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice continues to ...

The Texas Board of Pardons is reviewing Saldívar's parole application, the Post reports. A parole board will hold a hearing on the matter at the end of March. Rhyma Castillo is a trending ...

According to officials, David Sanford, 55, of Huntsville was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by a life term of supervised release on Wednesday. Sanford pleaded guilty to one count of ...

A former bank worker found herself pregnant while serving time in prison for theft. Jodi, 21, who was jailed after stealing £20,000 to fund a gambling addiction, revealed her experiences in a candid ...

Ms South visited the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Texas, where she inspected the death row unit and execution chamber. In a conversation with her US fellow prison guards working the beat, she asked ...