For a third consecutive time, a bill requiring prisons to have air conditioning has likely died in the Texas Senate.

Don Dickerman never set out to become a deliverance minister—nor did he expect to build lifelong friendships with notorious criminals like Ted Bundy and the Son of Sam.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas prisons could be fully air conditioned within the next decade if a newly proposed bill becomes law. House Bill 3006, which passed the House Corrections Committee ...

Bob Ferguson issued an order Tuesday afternoon ... in January which allowed Pauley the ability to be released from prison on parole. Pauley, 66, is serving a life sentence for the murders of ...

This is not the first time Texas has been sued over the heat in its state prisons. A similar case covering just one unit resulted in the prison agency installing A/C there and making other quality ...

After spending decades as a Texas prison inmate, Arnulfo Ayala flinched last month when a captain at the newly reopened Bartlett Unit extended an arm to shake the confessed killer’s hand.

She spent her days tending to corn and other crops on the 1,200-acre farm surrounding the Lane Murray Unit, a women’s prison in central Texas. At night, the heat inside the cells was often worse ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice acknowledges that tuberculosis has broken out in one of its largest prisons, the maximum-security John B. Connally Unit midway between San Antonio and ...

Texas – A coalition of advocates has joined one of Texas' most famous inmates to sue the state over extreme temperatures in prison cells, arguing in federal court that inmates are "being cooked ...

Tyler Clark, 31, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for family violence ... Clark was being housed at the Ferguson Unit in Midway, Texas. Records filed with the state show five inmates ...

MIDWAY, Texas ... copyright violations. The Jim Ferguson Unit opened in 1962 and houses 2,096 inmates in a complex spanning more than 4,000 acres. The prison has a total staff of 364 employees ...