THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative ...

The judge’s ruling was celebrated by advocacy ... New Mexico and Georgia. The number of heat-related deaths in Texas prisons is widely disputed. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice lists ...

In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday ... Throughout his career, he's portrayed heat in Texas prisons as either a problem too big to be solved or a part of the punishment for a crime.

(Rhonda Oaks/The Daily News via AP, File) FILE - Advocates for cooling Texas prisons ... in his ruling on a a temporary injunction request. “The Court is of the view that excessive heat is ...

The case is one of the most significant lawsuits in the U.S. regarding the protection of prisoners from extreme heat. Judge Robert Pitman said Texas must take action because the prison conditions are ...

Lawyers for a Maryland man who was deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite an order protecting him from removal want to force the Trump administration to bring him back. Government ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional ... Robert Pitman wrote in his ruling on a a temporary injunction ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton is appealing a federal judge's ruling that drag shows can take place at Texas A&M. The attorney general's office is seeking to reverse the decision so that campus ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Texas A&M University System from enforcing a ban on drag shows being held at its special event venues. The ruling allowed Draggieland, an event scheduled ...

What the Texas Supreme Court takes issue with, according to its opinion, is how the juvenile court — and the majority of the Houston appeals court — interpreted the rules around whether ...