Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

More than 80,000 Texas prisoners live in facilities that lack air conditioning. They have former state senator and Houston ...

Robert King, a US citizen, was collared in McKinney, Texas, after he made the disturbing threats online, Homeland Security ...

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

A federal judge's rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ordering a fix ...

A multi-law enforcement operation resulted in 40 alleged members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) ...

Prosecutors said the victims' families trusted Jeffrey Hitchcock to care for the children. Instead, he subjected them to ...

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

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside ...

A federal judge found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but did not order the state to begin ...

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 ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that lack air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Wednesday in a ...