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

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the ...

Enough rain will pour down in coastal and even central parts of Texas and later ... begin serving a 116-month prison term in California. U.S. News // 5 hours ago State Department formally notifies ...

Christopher Schweikart, a veteran struggling with mental illness, was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the ...

The list of appointments was posted less than a month after the Star-Telegram found the Texas Commission on Jail Standards ...

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

Jail deaths were not independently investigated by Fort Worth police, records show. A potential loophole in Texas law made ...

Thanks to reforms, the Texas prison population dwindled, and the troubled, privately managed Dawson State Jail near downtown Dallas closed in 2013. Now Texas is planning to end its decades-long ...

People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system.

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside ...

The first floor of inmate cells at the Tarrant County Corrections Center in Fort Worth on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Chris Torres [email protected] The Texas Commission on Jail Standards ...