The deaths represent a relatively small portion of people in Texas prisons. But Texas Department of Criminal Justice ...
A federal judge and advocacy groups are pushing for prisons to install air conditioning due to dangerous and potentially ...
A decision whether to mandate air conditioning inside Texas prisons is in the hands of a federal judge, as advocacy organizations try to force the state to address what they allege are dangerous, ...
David Ruiz, the Texas prison inmate whose name became synonymous with state prison reform, died Nov. 12 at the TDCJ hospital in Galveston. Ruiz first entered prison in 1960, sentenced to a 12-year ...
Spring is almost over. Soon, tens of thousands of Texas inmates in prisons without air conditioning will begin suffering through another summer of 100-plus degree days, every day, month after month.
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Until federal immigration agents declared the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi a deportable alien, the Kenyan native was working as a Texas prison guard, with his employment authorization vetted by the ...
Until federal immigration agents declared the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi a deportable alien, the Kenyan native was working as a Texas prison guard, with his employment authorization vetted by the ...