A 34-year-old man has been transferred from a state prison to the Bell County Jail in order to face trial on a rape charge ...

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...

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

US District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday held Wednesday that the extreme heat in Texas prisons is 'plainly unconstitutional' while denying a temporary injunction request to install air ...

"So, the court finds it is not in the parties' or the public interest to issue a preliminary injunction at this time," Pitman ...

The couple’s son, Michael Lemke, told WLNS that a Mexican judge has given Palace Resorts six months to gather evidence. He’s concerned this could mean that the Akeos might be detained in Mexico for a ...

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to deny parole over 'the Nature of the Offense.' She will be eligible again in ...

The woman who has served nearly three decades in prison for killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, has been ...

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

Texan authorities have been criticized over extreme heat in their prison system, where temperatures can routinely rise above ...

The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against ...