A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the ...

Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.

A Texas Tribune analysis revealed that at least 41 people had died inside Texas prisons in 2023 during the state's ...

According to documents, Marvin Pineda, 47, an acquaintance of the 9-year-old victim’s family from Honduras, was at their New ...

Injustice sat down with Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer housed at the Lane Murray Unit, the largest women’s prison in ...

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

El Paso District Attorney James Montoya will not seek the death penalty against Patrick Crucius, the Walmart mass shooter.

A 45-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been sentenced for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine ...

Abortion is legal in Texas only when the life of the mother or a “major bodily function” is at risk. Doctors, who could face ...

The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited ...