Texas plans to add 5,600 prison beds across 14 facilities after lawmakers approved more than $300 million to expand housing ...

Two major projects are part of a broader plan to add 5,600 beds.

The agency made the announcements on Wednesday as part of its effort to address what it called "decades of deferred ...

Texas is facing more pressure over what advocates describe as oven-like prison cells that have been linked to illness and ...

The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

State hit by new wrongful death lawsuit by family of Jason Wilson, who died in ‘brutally hot, un-airconditioned’ cell ...

Karmelo Anthony was transferred to a Texas prison to begin his 35-year sentence for the murder of Austin Metcalf. He was transferred to the Wallace Pack Unit, near Houston, Texas, on Wednesday morning ...

Prisoners at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas, in March of 1966. Ellis is built on land from a former slave plantation. Credit: Photo by Bruce Jackson On a 90-degree June day at Memorial Unit in ...

AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, June 25, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — A new report from Texas 2036 finds that Texas is already seeing significant expansion in higher ...

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For 55 years, from 1931 to 1986, Texas prisoners were given the chance to participate in a wild west rodeo every October as thousands of spectators paid to watch.

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 ...