There were allegedly five heat-related deaths over the last two summers in Texas prisons, the plaintiff’s attorneys presented on the first day of the federal trial over insufficient air conditioning ...

Federal authorities have indicted a Texas man and a Michigan woman for their roles in an alleged scheme to smuggle synthetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inmates shuffle past new fans in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Memorial Unit in Brazoria County on July 12, 2017. The ...

A Texas prison program uses Islamic mentorship to reduce recidivism.

Texas prisons without air conditioning get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups, like county jails, according to a new ...

Inside Texas prisons, Muslim inmates are leading a rehabilitation program built around faith, accountability and emotional ...

A district court judge said in March that hot conditions for inmates are “plainly unconstitutional.” Texas lawmakers ended the state’s most recent legislative session without advancing a plan to ...

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums ...

The famous Texas burlesque dancer Candy Barr (born Juanita Dale Slusher) performs with a band of incarcerated musicians, including drummer Morgan White, at the 1967 Texas Prison Rodeo. Barr had ...