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

Tense Testimony – Questions to an insurance CEO turned tense at a hearing of the Texas House DOGE committee. The chairman ...

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

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 ...

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A federal judge found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional” but did not order the state to begin ...

During an August hearing in the lawsuit, U.S. District Court Judge Robert ... This is not the first time Texas has been sued over the heat in its state prisons. A similar case covering just one unit ...

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 ...