AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...
Judge Robert Pitman ruled in favor of prisoners’ rights advocates but stopped short of ordering the state to install air ...
Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.
About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.
A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional.” ...
Injustice sat down with Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer housed at the Lane Murray Unit, the largest women’s prison in ...
Dallas County prosecutors are trying to get Heath Harris removed from Randy Halprin's defense team because he attended the ...
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, ...
The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of ... told USA TODAY on Feb. 26 during an interview at a Texas state prison north of Houston. “How can I not be angry at the corruption ...
In the late summer of 2023, Jeremy Busby was brutally attacked by a cellmate in the Texas prison where he was being held.
A man accused of killing Joel Osteen's great-aunt waited almost two decades in the Harris County Jail without a trial.