About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.
US District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday held Wednesday that the extreme heat in Texas prisons is 'plainly unconstitutional' while denying a temporary injunction request to install air ...
Texan authorities have been criticized over extreme heat in their prison system, where temperatures can routinely rise above ...
A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to ...
Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.
Injustice sat down with Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer housed at the Lane Murray Unit, the largest women’s prison in ...
The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...
The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, ...
In the late summer of 2023, Jeremy Busby was brutally attacked by a cellmate in the Texas prison where he was being held.
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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 ...