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 ...

Lamont Cousins, 48, was sentenced by a Tarrant County jury to life without parole for the Dec. 14, 2020, slaying of ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Texas Legislature have had years to correct a deficiency that renders a typical Texas prison into what a U.S. district judge likened to ...

Fans hang in a hall's corner at the Louie C. Powledge Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men located in Anderson County, in 2021. (Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer) We have ...

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 ...

A Tarrant County jury sentenced Lamont Cousins to life for killing three people at a Fort Worth car dealership in 2020.

no need to cook them alive,” Marica Lewis told the Committee on Corrections. Officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which oversees the state’s 101 prison facilities ...