Four blank white walls comprise a standard 6-foot by 9-foot solitary confinement mock prison cell. A metal toilet connects to a small sink and lies inches away from a rigid bed and steel door that ...

The families of Jon Southards, Elizabeth Hagerty and John Skinner are suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in ...

Currently, 66% of Texas prison beds are not in air-conditioned areas. ... “Nobody wants to work in an un-air conditioned metal and concrete building in full uniform,” she said.

Three families, whose relatives died while in Texas prisons during a summer heat wave, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in US ...

Simmons was incarcerated in Texas prisons from 2011 until 2021 and now leads the Lioness ... “Nobody wants to work in an un-air conditioned metal and concrete building in full uniform,” she ...

The Texas House passed Friday a bill requiring prisons to have air conditioning by the end of 2032. Lawmakers passed 79-39 House Bill 3006 by Terry Canales , D-Edinburg.

A study by Texas A&M’s Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center found that roughly 70 percent of Texas’s prisons don’t have proper air conditioning in a state known for having multiple months ...

Simmons was incarcerated in Texas prisons from 2011 until 2021 and now leads the Lioness ... “Nobody wants to work in an un-air conditioned metal and concrete building in full uniform,” she ...