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

Prosecutors said the victims' families trusted Jeffrey Hitchcock to care for the children. Instead, he subjected them to ...

Chowdhury, now 33, then called 911, telling a dispatcher someone broke into their home and his wife “got in the way” as he ...

A federal judge's rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ordering a fix ...

A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional.” ...

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 ...

Keith Brazier was released from prison for his third DWI about 8 hours before he ran a red light and crashed into a Jeep, ...

Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A multigenerational sex abuser who sexually assaulted 11 family members from 1995 to 2022 was sentenced ...

TEXAS, TX - Two-thirds of Texas state run jails and prisons (roughly 100) are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing ...