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.

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

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

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

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

Dominick, the Texas Prisons Community Advocates founder, said she’s concerned that the rate at which TDCJ prisons are filling is outpacing the rate at which the state agency is installing air co ...

A federal judge has decided not to order temporary air conditioning be installed in all Texas prisons, allowing a lawsuit against the state to move forward while admitting that the problem will be ...

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.

a group of men incarcerated at a state penitentiary this week again asked a federal judge to take steps to protect prisoners doing outdoor agricultural labor in dangerous heat. “Texas is the ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP ... over prison conditions when temperatures often rise above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius). In Louisiana, a group of men incarcerated at a state penitentiary ...