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

This allowed us to rethink how to best protect privacy while continuing to provide transparency on who is held in Texas prisons and why. For those seeking information in the meantime, TDCJ ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison ... require the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to fully air-condition its more than 100 facilities ...

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering ... and housing areas throughout the TDCJ system." The background: About 85,000 Texas prison inmates reside in facilities that do not have air ...