According to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, 40-year-old Yuliana Mares was arrested for indecency with a child by ...

Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families ...

After a major hoarding case, Midland County may build an animal facility near the jail — giving both stray pets and inmates a ...

A Hill County jury on April 23 sentenced a Hubbard man to 60 years in prison in the brutal assault of his elderly grandmother ...

Brandon Stephens, 21, was sentenced to two life terms after pleading guilty to Murder and Aggravated Robbery in the 2022 killing of Stanley Wilcox.

A judge has recently ruled in the ongoing litigation regarding oppressive heat conditions in Texas prisons. United States District Judge Robert Pitman called the lack of air conditioning in inmate ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative push to require air conditioning in every state prison has not gained ...

About two thirds of Texas prison inmates reside in facilities that are not fully air conditioned in housing areas, and indoor temperatures routinely top 100 degrees Fahrenheit. (Marjorie Kamys ...

A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative push to require air conditioning in every state prison has not gained significant traction.

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 ...