Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.
The investigation, which homed in on recordkeeping at the Mark W. Stiles Unit in Beaumont over the summer of 2022, found ...
In this episode of Everyday Injustice, we hear from Kwaneta Harris, currently incarcerated at the Lane Murray Unit in ...
The investigation was ordered by federal judge hearing a case on whether heat in Texas prisons qualifies as cruel and unusual ...
The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...
In the late summer of 2023, Jeremy Busby was brutally attacked by a cellmate in the Texas prison where he was being held.
Stiles Unit in Beaumont in 2022 found prison staff ... The TDCJ has faced criticism for years about a lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons. The department says it's added 10,000 cool beds ...
Texas is likely to play an outsized role in detaining immigrants because it already has 21 detention facilities.
Private prison company GEO Group sued the state comptroller in 2017, arguing the company's purchases qualified for an ...
Jonathan Treviño, a major player in the Panama Unit corruption case, was released from a halfway house on Thursday. ...