State District Court deliberated about 45 minutes before convicting Larry Lee Johnson on one count of sexual assault and one ...

The investigation was ordered by federal judge hearing a case on whether heat in Texas prisons qualifies as cruel and unusual ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that lack air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Wednesday in a ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system ...

Read full article: Texas lawmakers differ on how to handle truancy problem Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Staff with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) falsified records about how hot it got in at least one Texas prison, according to an internal investigation tied to a ...

A female prison guard has been suspended for allegedly having an “inappropriate relationship” with an inmate at a scandal-plagued UK jail. Katerina Tatus was recently “marched to the gates ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside are dangerous to inmates and staff, according to an internal ...