A new comprehensive analysis of state data shows Texas prisons get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely ...

For more than two decades, Marshall Moreno sat in a Texas prison, convicted of sexually assaulting his own child. Now prosecutors say he is actually innocent as his now-adult daughter has recanted her ...

Texas sets temperature standards for county jails and even animal shelters. But state prisons have no enforceable heat limits ...

A California man broke into the wrong home in Killeen in 2024 when he found himself confronted by a veteran who pushed him ...

After 23 years in solitary confinement, Alvaro “Xinachtli” Hernandez’s health is failing him. So is the system.

Imprisoned people are forced to drink and bathe with water they describe as over-chlorinated, slimy, and foul-smelling.

On October 1, 1849, an inmate was brought to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. He was the first inmate in the new partially completed Walls Unit, and was serving time as a convicted horse ...