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

The Justice Department quietly decided in the final weeks of the Biden administration not to prosecute Texas Attorney General ...

A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don't have air conditioning is "plainly unconstitutional." ...

Texan authorities have been criticized over extreme heat in their prison system, where temperatures can routinely rise above ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirmed the Gatesville Board made the decision. The board is part of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. Marsha Moberly is the chair of the ...

The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, alleging the heat inside the state’s dozens of un-air conditioned prisons is ...

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 ...

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 ...

(England’s transfer was “unrelated to complaints,” Amanda Hernandez, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice told the Texas Observer via email.) In my cell upstairs ...

He was then sentenced to 10 years of confinement in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison. More information on Trejo’s capture can be found here. Funded by the Governor’s Public ...