A new comprehensive analysis of state data shows Texas prisons get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely ...

Imprisoned people are forced to drink and bathe with water they describe as over-chlorinated, slimy, and foul-smelling.

Texas sets temperature standards for county jails and even animal shelters. But state prisons have no enforceable heat limits ...

Ghislaine Maxwell ’s unexpected arrival at a cushy Texas prison this August has left other inmates unsettled, with some claiming it seems that she receives preferential treatment, according to a ...

After 23 years in solitary confinement, Alvaro “Xinachtli” Hernandez’s health is failing him. So is the system.

Questions arose about the prison camp Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator and former girlfriend, was transferred to last week, after spending years in a federal prison in Florida.

On October 1, 1849, an inmate was brought to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. He was the first inmate in the new partially completed Walls Unit, and was serving time as a convicted horse ...

Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia have called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to grant them access to a minimum-security prison camp where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held. In a letter sent ...

Last year, the Texas prison system unwittingly started a controlled experiment. Agency leaders have long blamed prisoners’ friends and families for a constant flow of drugs they say are often smuggled ...