The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...
High-security inmates at 19 prisons went on a weekslong lockdown last month after two prisoners were killed at the East Texas lockup that houses death row. Just outside of Livingston, the Polunsky ...
Texas prisons without air conditioning get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups, like county jails, according to a new ...