A man pleaded guilty in the case of a stabbing at a penitentiary in Atwater on Monday, the United States Department of ...

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

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

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had previously offered to imprison convicted criminals from the United States in his ...

(Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File) The Texas case will not have authority over prisons in other states. But Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the ACLU National Prison Project ...

Judge Says Heat in Texas Prisons Unconstitutional as States Face Mounting Lawsuits AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge's rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning ...