A years-long fight over the temperature inside Texas prisons has entered a new phase. In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that keeping inmates in ...

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

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 ...

A judge ruled that Texas prison heat is unconstitutional but stopped short of ordering air conditioning installations, which ...

At the same time, the company behind the solar farm says it’s doing all it can to ensure safety. Long associated with fossil fuels, Texas is now the clean energy leader in the U.S., generating ...

while practicing medicine without a license carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. Texas law bans an abortion at all stages of a pregnancy and only allows exceptions when a patient has a ...

️ Regulation of abortion ️ Increased funding for vocational training in Texas prisons ️ Limiting law enforcement’s ability to arrest individuals for minor traffic offenses As ...

A bill has been filed in the current Texas legislative session to clarify medical exceptions allowed under the law. The charge of illegal performance of an abortion carries a punishment of up to 20 ...

Sebastiano Scionti, an ex-employee at Jupiter Farms Elementary ... to court this month and convinced a judge to spare him from prison on account of the victim’s “willing participation ...