Former inmates share firsthand accounts of dangerous summer heat behind bars as a federal trial challenges conditions inside ...

Attorneys for Texas prisoners say the conditions expose inmates and staff to dangerously high temperatures and have caused ...

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

As Texas moves to install air conditioning in all of its prisons by 2033, a federal judge who raised constitutional concerns about triple-digit temperatures pummeling inmates will decide whether to ...

There were allegedly five heat-related deaths over the last two summers in Texas prisons, the plaintiff’s attorneys presented on the first day of the federal trial over insufficient air conditioning ...

The investigation revealed a smuggling pipeline that relied on drones and outside accomplices to bypass prison security ...

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

The crackdown could drive up costs for families or limit access to books while hardly denting the flow of drugs.

To cool the state’s entire prison system, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has said it would cost more than $1 ...

A trial against the state of Texas for not having air conditioning at its state prisons starts this week. Organizations representing inmates argue extreme heat amounts to illegal, cruel punishment.

Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all its prison cells.