But family members, prison rights advocates and some lawmakers blame the deaths on the brutal heat inside Texas prisons — and the state’s unwillingness to address it. This year, state ...

Texas officials have not detailed when jails and prisons — known hot spots of the coronavirus' spread — will receive doses of the vaccine. And many on the inside remain wary of getting the ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice was in court Friday for the final day of this week’s hearings spurred by plaintiffs’ allegations that hot conditions inside Texas ...

The Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended Wednesday for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to close some correctional facilities with staffing ...

will be shown inside prisons in California, New York, Texas and more. The screenings are a collaboration between the film's distributor, A24, and Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), the non ...

[Inside the only college class in Texas to help prepare inmates for life after prison] The commission’s recommendations also include efforts to digitize or automize certain processes that ...

The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate rehabilitation programs, the Texas ...

In response, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) said it had changed its policy to allow only prison security personnel inside the execution chamber. "TDCJ chaplains will continue to ...