The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

Members of a Texas legislative panel sharply dressed down the state’s Juvenile Justice Department on Tuesday ... Several members of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, its vice chair ...

“Every warden and leader of a correctional ... On Thursday, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said it has asked lawmakers for $118 million to install air conditioning for about 16,000 ...