THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative ...

In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday ... Throughout his career, he's portrayed heat in Texas prisons as either a problem ...

Already, Texas law requires county jails to be kept between 65 and 85 degrees. Other facilities, such as animal shelters, also have heat rules. State lawmakers did not put any money directly towards ...

also have heat rules. State lawmakers did not put any money directly towards air conditioning prisons last year, when they had a $32.7 billion budget surplus. The Texas House had budgeted $545 ...

That is what is happening in Texas prisons. Only one-third of the 100 prisons in Texas have air conditioning. According to ...

Texan authorities have been criticized over extreme heat in their prison system, where temperatures can routinely rise above ...

Texas officials acknowledged that heat ... rules for evidence and other details in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder trial ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP ... during dangerous extreme heat. But U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s warnings to Texas to act after finding the conditions in the prison system unconstitutional ...

A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional.” ...