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Inmates say food melts in front of them and claim their cells' temperatures exceed 150 degrees.
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Advocacy groups say physical mail is an important part of contact between those behind bars and the outside world.
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Since a heat wave gripped Texas, at least nine inmates, including two men in their 30s, have died of heart attacks or unknown causes in prisons lacking air conditioning. It’s been 11 years since the state last classified a death as heat-related.
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Prison researchers were shocked to learn that women were issued a thick white gown instead of the two-piece uniform that men are issued. Now, inmates said they are receiving those two-piece uniforms too.
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In some prisons temperatures can reach triple-digit temperatures in the summer. A North Texas lawmaker is pushing for a law requiring temperatures to remain between 65 and 85 degrees.
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Despite a near 10% rise in jail populations — bringing with it a rise in suicides, assaults and deaths — the governor looks to jail more for longer. Reform advocates call it political.
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An investigation showed that, in half of unnatural deaths in Houston area jails, the deceased had been flagged as potentially mentally ill.
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Men in Texas prisons are now entering the fourth week of a hunger strike in Texas prisons. It’s part of a larger effort to reform the harsh conditions of solitary confinement.
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An organizer alleged the prison was retaliating by interfering with the inmates' attempts to contact the outside world.
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Hundreds of prisoners may participate in the protest beginning Tuesday, the first day of the state’s legislative session. Texas often keeps prisoners in solitary confinement for years or decades.
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The decision effectively sends Griner to serve out her nine-year term in a Russian prison colony, even as the U.S. and Russia appear set to reengage in talks for a possible prisoner swap.
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The number of deaths by firearm have nearly doubled in the past 10 years and accounted for 75% of the homicides reported in 2021, according to the Texas Council on Family Violence.