Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

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

Thanks to reforms, the Texas prison population dwindled, and the troubled, privately managed Dawson State Jail near downtown Dallas closed in 2013. Now Texas is planning to end its decades-long ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could ...

About two thirds of Texas prison inmates reside in facilities that ... Marjorie Kamys Cotera For The Texas Tribune) Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers ...