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BURNET COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — On Pam Stevenson’s drive home from teaching a bible study class at the Ellen Halbert Unit Women’s Prison, a message she couldn’t ignore hit her as she ...

Texas has some of the most extreme abortion laws in the country — so extreme that doctors are scared that treating pregnant women in medical ... fines or a lifetime prison sentence.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ordering a fix before summer in what has become of one the country’s ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could ...

Judge Says Extreme Heat in Texas Prisons Is Unconstitutional but Doesn't Order They Install AC AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat. Prison staff and inmates move through the Darrington Unit's main hallway on ...

But U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s warnings to Texas to act after finding the conditions in the prison system unconstitutional could resonate elsewhere in the U.S. where similar challenges ...