GROWING PROBLEM: All Texas prisons under lockdown in response to rising violence in units, TDCJ says Located amid empty fields in the farthest northwest corner of the Panhandle, the Dalhart Unit ...

A bill requiring air conditioning in the state’s prisons gained approval from a Texas House panel this week. House Bill 3006, ...

According to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, 40-year-old Yuliana Mares was arrested for indecency with a child by ...

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

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could ...

A years-long fight over the temperature inside Texas prisons has entered a new phase. In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that keeping inmates in ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system ...

Weeks after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a bill requiring air conditioning in ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative push to require air conditioning in every state prison has not gained ...

The Dallas County district attorney’s office will continue prosecuting Texas Seven escapee Randy Halprin for capital murder ...

About two thirds of Texas’ prison inmates reside in facilities that are not fully air conditioned in housing areas, and indoor temperatures routinely top 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Credit ...

But U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s warnings to Texas to act after finding the conditions in the prison system unconstitutional could resonate elsewhere in the U.S. where similar challenges ...