The prison was shut down in 1953 before work began in the 1960s to cover the facility with earth and sand. In the photos, many of the patients’ scribbles on the walls are fragmentary and ...

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. Credit ...

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About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat. Prison staff ... inmate who was housed in a Huntsville cell where ...

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities ... an inmate who was housed in a Huntsville cell where temperatures exceeded 110 degrees. The new filing expanded the plaintiffs to include ...

(AP Photo/Eric Gay, 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 Morning News via AP, File) A federal ...

The Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Republic of Texas Presidential Library in Huntsville provides a unique ... the vest appears in several pictures of him. Houston liked to say, “A leopard ...

LAREDO, Texas - A leader of the Cartel Del Noreste has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in federal prison for his role in a murder-for-hire plot that brought three hitmen into Laredo ...

“The court made it very clear what the state is doing is unconstitutional and endangering the lives of those they are supposed to be protecting … This is step one in changing the Texas prison ...

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities ... an inmate who was housed in a Huntsville cell where temperatures exceeded 110 degrees. The new filing expanded the plaintiffs to include ...