Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and prisons whose populations have continued to grow after dipping significantly ...

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.

A lawyer for the plaintiffs and officials at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment. Texas is not alone in facing lawsuits over dangerously ...

Wood will remain in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice custody at the Polunsky Unit, the department said in a statement to Fox News Digital. Wood's execution was the second halted in the U.S ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the ...

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

David Leonard Wood, known as the "Desert Killer," is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit prison in Livingston ...

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

Last year, I watched one guard yank off his uniform shirt as he stormed toward the gate ... This isn’t just a few rotten apples in one facility. In 2023, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TCDJ ...