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 ...
An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights but declined to order the state's prison system to ...
In Georgia, prison officials face a federal lawsuit from the family of a man who said he died after he was left in an outdoor cell without water, shade or ice in July 2023. The Texas case will ...
Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.