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

A North Texas Lawmaker asked Gov. Greg Abbott to look into sending undocumented migrants incarcerated in the state to a ...

The ruling was immediately hailed by abortion rights advocates. “We won! Our abortion fund is reopened!” Kelsea McClain, ...

The state attorney general had raised the possibility of charging doctors with criminal conspiracy for recommending abortion ...

A Brazos Valley man who escaped from a Houston behavioral hospital and is considered “violent” is back in custody according ...

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 ...

Senators also heard testimony on a pair of bills that would crack down on abortion pill access and block taxpayer-funded ...

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

The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending decades ...