The five bills that would require complete air conditioning in state prisons haven’t had a hearing yet, and the money set for ...

Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

Robert King, a US citizen, was collared in McKinney, Texas, after he made the disturbing threats online, Homeland Security ...

O’Malley, 81, the first U.S. Marine Corps recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam war, was accompanied by his stepdaughter Shannon Dear. She lives in Euless; O’Malley lived in a nursing home in ...

Hector Perdomo shot and killed Uriel Aragon on Nov. 13 in the parking lot of the El Patron Mexican Restaurant and Bar, State Attorney's Office says.

Sheriff Oscar Ugarte provided a behind-the-scenes look at the El Paso County Jail's security measures and inmate ...

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...

US District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday held Wednesday that the extreme heat in Texas prisons is 'plainly unconstitutional' while denying a temporary injunction request to install air ...

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

All three resigned from the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) following strikes and firings at state facilities. “It’s a very sad day for them to have to make ...

Texas has not reported any heat-related fatalities in its prisons since 2012. The state distinguishes between deaths where heat was the primary cause and those where it was merely a contributing ...

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 ...