About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

Texan authorities have been criticized over extreme heat in their prison system, where temperatures can routinely rise above ...

Brian Bonsall says the letters and pictures were sent while he starred on the NBC sitcom, which he first appeared on at only ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge's rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

The decision came Thursday, after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to deny the release of Saldívar from the ...

A November 2022 study by researchers at Brown, Boston and Harvard universities found that 13% — or 271 — of the deaths in ...

Osgood’s girlfriend, the other person charged in the murder, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. The execution authorization by Ivey comes two weeks after the Republican granted ...

Inmates are monitored at a security station ... the state’s already overwrought prisons and jails, experts said. Texas’ prison population is projected to increase by about 10% over the next ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A Madison County Judge has sentenced a man to life in prison for a 2023 murder. Madison County Circuit Judge Ruth Hall sentenced Jason Everett Moore to life in prison ...

Twenty people have been charged, and the final arrest was recently made in connection with a Nevada prison brawl that left three inmates dead and five others injured. Nevada Attorney General Aaron ...

David Leonard Wood, known as the "Desert Killer," is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit prison in Livingston ...