“It sends an incredibly powerful message.” FILE – An inmate works outdoors during the hot summer outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 25, 2015. (Rose Baca/The Dallas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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BARTLETT, Texas (KWTX) - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is preparing to reopen the Bartlett prison facility as the state’s first ‘Innovation’ Unit, promising inmates a future in ...

On a 90-degree June day at Memorial Unit in Southeast Texas, the humidity makes the heat cling to your skin. Live oaks line both sides of the long driveway to the prison. There’s the faintly ...

A landmark 1976 U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Estelle v. Gamble) makes incarcerated people the only group in the United States with a protected constitutional right to health care. But the exact ...

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 ...

I'm Lauren Adams, your Senior Neighborhood Reporter in Central Texas. MADISON COUNTY ... an inmate assaulted a staff member on the Ferguson Unit inside the infirmary — the video has gone ...

MIDWAY, Texas — The Texas ... 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, 246 ...

For the past several years, Trzeciak has worked with the Texas Department of Corrections as a volunteer chaplain in the Jim Ferguson Unit ... at the Mountain View Unit prison in Gatesville ...