FILE - The perimeter of the Diboll Correctional Facility is seen on July 19, 2014, in Diboll, Texas. (Rhonda Oaks/The Daily News ... Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme ...

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

The order cites a Monday U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said the feds must give timely notice before deporting people under a 1798 wartime law.

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 ...

An Austin federal ... least three inmates' deaths, the judge's decision foreshadows a major ruling against the nation's second-largest prison system. The court will likely require the Texas ...

A federal lawsuit in New Mexico claims eight inmates were confined for hours in stifling summer heat in a prison ... three bills that would provide some relief. Temperatures are rising as the ...

A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative push to require air conditioning in every state prison has not gained significant traction.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge's rebuke of ... including a three-story tower with rope... “Texas is the largest prison system in the country and the judge found it to be acting in ...

Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge's rebuke ... our facilities,” the agency said. In Louisiana, a federal judge last year ordered prison officials to increase shaded areas, schedule ...

was sentenced to nine years in prison for robbing four banks. According to federal prosecutors, Vaughn Watrous, 48, was pleaded guilty to robbing four banks in a three-day span in 2021.