Lawyers for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice say the state's prisons have made strides in getting more air ...

Current and former heads of Texas’ prison system defended asking for lesser amounts to air-condition facilities during a ...

Texas prisons now restrict donated books over drug smuggling concerns, prompting warnings from advocates about reduced inmate ...

About 2,880 prisoners are housed at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston. Only one housing area, where death row and administrative segregation inmates live, is air-conditioned. Credit: April ...

Lawyers have tried to force the state of Texas to provide air-conditioning in its prisons for years. Now, they say this case ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

Two Texas correctional officers were relieved of duty while officials investigate separate sexual assault allegations by ...