A years-long fight over the temperature inside Texas prisons has entered a new phase. In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that keeping inmates in ...
Tense Testimony – Questions to an insurance CEO turned tense at a hearing of the Texas House DOGE committee. The chairman ...
About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.
US District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday held Wednesday that the extreme heat in Texas prisons is 'plainly unconstitutional' while denying a temporary injunction request to install air ...
"So, the court finds it is not in the parties' or the public interest to issue a preliminary injunction at this time," Pitman ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...
A federal judge found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional” but did not order the state to begin ...
Wellpath, the health care company that insures the prison against such lawsuits, filed for bankruptcy last November. All pending lawsuits against the company — 471 across 27 states, as of March ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration has moved to dismiss a Biden-era lawsuit against Texas over a state law that would allow local police to arrest migrants who enter the country ...
It’s the prison’s procedure that staff members are not to be isolated with inmates for extended periods of time, the lawsuit said. However, that’s exactly what happened when the employee was ...