A prison official identified the inmate as Macos Sanchez-Santana ... He was arrested in Texas last year. Federal authorities were not immediately available Wednesday to comment on Villalba ...

The five bills that would require complete air conditioning in state prisons haven’t had a hearing yet, and the money set for ...

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 ...

A Texarkana federal inmate pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine on Tuesday and was sentenced to 100 ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system ...

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“This is a federal judge saying Texas is unconstitutionally ... respond to a request for comment. About 85,000 Texas prison inmates reside in facilities that do not have air conditioning in ...

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that ... but none of the bills have received a hearing yet. “This is a federal judge saying Texas is unconstitutionally housing people ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly ... deaths from multiple causes in 2023 and that prison staff and inmates sometimes fall ill from high temperatures.