Starting on Thursday, Texas will implement Senate Bill 8 — also known as the Texas Women’s Privacy Act, or more commonly ...

Inmates from left, Richard Hernandez, Arnulfo Ayala, and William Baucum in the Bartlett Innovation Unit in Bartlett, Texas on Nov. 21, 2024. Credit: Lorianne Willett ...

Another Texas summer is here, and once again, tens of thousands of people incarcerated in Texas prisons are sweltering, and some are dying, because they’re denied the necessity of air conditioning.

Countless inmates will continue languishing in sweltering temperatures because efforts to provide air conditioning throughout Texas’ prison system fell flat. Criminals go to prison to be punished. It ...

Men at the Connally Unit Credit: image via Facebook / TDCJ – John B. Connally Unit The Texas Department of Criminal Justice acknowledges that tuberculosis has broken out in one of its largest prisons, ...

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They’re not real, and they’re prison issued. But the 58-year old wants you to see them, flashing a full smile at every opportunity. “I feel like I’m back,” he said. The Harris County man waited four ...

The judge's order deferred a ruling on whether they could use qualified immunity as an argument to dismiss a prison wrongful death case filed against prison officials. On behalf of Texas prison ...

After being on the run for nearly 16 years, Texas prison escapee Jose Juan Salaz is back on Texas soil. US Marshals escorted Salaz from Mexico and landed this afternoon at George Bush Intercontinental ...

Two thirds of people incarcerated in Texas’ prisons face another summer without air conditioning after lawmakers again declined to pass legislation that would mandate a timeline for installing climate ...