The lawsuit alleges the infection is caused by unsanitary kitchen conditions and a failure by prison health care providers to treat and test.

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

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

Many Texas prisons do not have air conditioning, and now a judge is siding with prisoners who say those conditions are unconstitutional. We look at why the judge did not order the state to immediately ...