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

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

Since 2010, The Texas Tribune has published information about Texas’ more than 100 prison units and the tens of thousands of people housed inside them. The data was provided by the Texas ...

The investigation was ordered by federal judge hearing a case on whether heat in Texas prisons qualifies as cruel and unusual ...

To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons. It’s 2025 and for decades the electric chair has been obsolete in Texas prisons (It was last used in a 1964 execution).

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One of the bills Wallace proposed to the state legislature this year is to prohibit public school libraries from carrying any book banned in Texas prisons. A parent in @Allen_ISD reads from an ...

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Proposed legislation includes increased penalties for retail theft, car burglaries and forgery, among others. Inmates are monitored at a security station at the Harris County Detention Center on ...

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