Lawmakers in Texas are seeking to impose harsh criminal penalties on school librarians and teachers who provide award-winning ...
During the prisons-building boom three decades ago, lawmakers allowed private, for-profit corporations to compete for prisons ...
Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.
The list of appointments was posted less than a month after the Star-Telegram found the Texas Commission on Jail Standards ...
Injustice sat down with Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer housed at the Lane Murray Unit, the largest women’s prison in ...
The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, ...
Cory Grado was sentenced to 17 years in prison for a sexual assault conviction and a maximum sentence of two years in state ...
A Texas Tribune analysis revealed that at least 41 people had died inside Texas prisons in 2023 during the state's ...
Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited ...
Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside are dangerous to inmates and staff, according to an internal ...
The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...