THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative ...

More than 80,000 Texas prisoners live in facilities that lack air conditioning. They have former state senator and Houston ...

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

Many Texas prisons do not have air conditioning, and now a judge is siding with prisoners who say those conditions are unconstitutional. We look at why the judge did not order the state to immediately ...

Only about 10% of Texas prison inmates have a heat score, even though all of the roughly 134,500 people incarcerated in them ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

YANGON (Xinhua): As temperatures rise across Myanmar, the Ministry of Health has issued preventive and safety guidelines for the public, according to a statement released by the ministry to the ...

This is not the first time Texas has been sued over the heat in its state prisons. A similar case covering just one unit resulted in the prison agency installing A/C there and making other quality of ...

Heat exposure has been linked to lasting benefits for overall health. Spending time in heated environments, like a sauna, can reduce the risk of some chronic diseases and can help improve sleep ...

falsified records about how hot it got in at least one Texas prison, according to an internal investigation tied to a federal lawsuit. Court documents filed this week state that TDCJ investigators who ...

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that officials are required to use to decide when extreme heat poses risks to inmates and guards, according to Austin public ...