The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, or Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849, and houses Texas' execution chamber. Two-third of state-run jails and prisons in Texas are not fulled air conditioned.

The case was brought by Bernie Tiede, a 65-year-old former inmate who sued TDCJ over conditions in his Huntsville cell ... as ...

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

It took over 40 years to identify Walker County Jane Doe, who was brutally slayed in Huntsville, Texas. However, her killer ...

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

In Louisiana, a group of men incarcerated at a state penitentiary this week ... outdoors during the hot summer outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 25, 2015.