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 ...

Now Texas is planning to end its decades-long experiment with state-owned, privately operated prisons and state jails. (Andy Jacobsohn / Staff Photographer) With little fanfare, Texas is planning ...

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 ...

In April 2024, advocacy groups joined the lawsuit to expand it to all Texas prisons. The plaintiffs are asking the court to require the state to maintain cell temperatures between 65 and 85 ...

(Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File) The Texas case will not have authority over prisons in other states. But Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the ACLU National Prison Project ...

AUSTIN, Texas — 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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — 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 ...