The state prison task force recently endorsed a proposal to build the new state prison at one of two sites or at existing ...

Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whom the president pardoned during his first term, now advocates for inmate ...

Bradshaw State Jail proudly held a graduation ceremony for participants of the Prison to Possibilities program—the first ...

The Joliet Prison, 1125 Collins Street, Joliet, was a primary shoot location for Prison Break. Even though the prison closed in 2002, it was chosen in 2005 as a stand-in for the fictional Fox ...

Officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which oversees the state’s 101 prison facilities, asked lawmakers for $118 million over the next biennium to install air conditioning in ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House passed Friday a bill requiring prisons ... and those new facilities will all be air-conditioned. An internal investigation also found that TDCJ has falsified ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and ... and dangerously hot prisons. From 2001 to 2019, at least 271 deaths in Texas prisons were attributable to extreme heat in facilities without ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas prisons could be fully air conditioned ... the funding would increase the number of air-conditioned beds across TDCJ facilities to more than 78,000. Last month, a federal ...