David Cortez Jr., a Texas Mexican Mafia member, was sentenced to over 20 years in prison for drug trafficking and firearm ...

In the dorms, there's a water fountain, but it's always warm because many mouths are slurping the cold water greedily. Sweat ...

A federal judge has ruled that conditions in Texas prisons without air conditioning violate inmates’ constitutional rights and ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to install air ...

A federal judge ruled Texas prison heat violates the Eighth Amendment and ordered TDCJ to install air conditioning in every prison by the end of 2029.

Alexis Page, an administrative assistant, scans mailed-in books for possible contraband at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Wynne Unit in Huntsville on May 21, 2026. A new state policy that ...

Christopher Hagerman, 50, of McDade, Texas, has been sentenced to 360 months (30 years) in prison by U.S. District Judge ...

Texas’ prison agency has asked the Legislature for $298 million over the next two years to add more than 15,700 air conditioned beds, saying the request will help deliver “significant and measurable ...

As of Oct. 1, just over a third of the state’s prisons were fully climate controlled, leaving around 90,000 incarcerated ...

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(The Texas Tribune) -- Texas’ prison agency has asked the Legislature for $298 million over the next two years to add more than 15,700 air conditioned beds, saying the request will help deliver ...