the TDCJ, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his office in August 2023, seeking to be moved to an air-conditioned cell. After a magistrate judge granted the request, four prison rights groups ...

About two thirds of Texas’ prison inmates reside in facilities that are not fully air conditioned in housing areas, and indoor temperatures routinely top 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Credit ...

In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that keeping inmates in extremely hot prison ... not order the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to immediately ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In the late summer of 2023, Jeremy Busby was brutally attacked by a cellmate in the Texas prison where he was ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - State prison facilities that struggle ... recommendations from a recent evaluation of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission ...

Since 2010, The Texas Tribune has published information about Texas’ more than 100 prison units and ... The data was provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice monthly and included ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative push to require air conditioning in every state prison has not gained ...