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

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey is facing scrutiny after a joint investigation found that inmates from the county jail labored his farm.

Jeanne Selander leads a unique animal rescue at the Monroe County Jail in Key West, Florida, that allows inmates to care for ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the ...

A Texas woman received a prison sentence after allegedly making fraudulent claims about being the owner and operator of a ...

Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is ...