AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

A years-long fight over the temperature inside Texas prisons has entered a new phase ... former inmate who sued TDCJ over conditions in his Huntsville cell, where temperatures regularly reached ...

“It sends an incredibly powerful message.” 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 ...

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) AUSTIN, Texas (AP ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

"It's influential,” Kendrick said. An inmate works outdoors during the hot summer outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 25, 2015. Credit: AP/Rose Baca Texas has more than ...

or Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849, and houses Texas' execution chamber. Two-third of state-run jails and prisons in Texas are not fulled air conditioned. Inmates rights groups are suing to change ...