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Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all of its prison cells. By Lauren McGaughy Reporting from Austin. A federal judge in Austin will soon ...

A federal case that is set to go to trial on Monday could force Texas to air-condition dozens of its prisons, as attorneys argue the state is exposing inmates, guards and other staff members to ...

The trial over insufficient air conditioning in Texas prisons is slated to start Monday in Austin. The proceeding comes over a year after U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said in a groundbreaking, 91 ...

A database showed more than 56,000 drug seizures inside Ohio prisons since 2020 – a jaw dropping number for places that are under constant watch and control. That information prompted journalists at ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Department of Justice said it would investigate two state women’s facilities to determine ‘if those prisons ...

The Trump administration is launching an investigation into trans women in women’s prisons in California and Maine — as a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom has led to horrific allegations of rape and ...

A California correctional officer stands at a gate on the grounds of Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, Calif., in July 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday, March 26, 2026, that it ...

The UK’s latest law on sentencing came into force on March 22. Among other changes, the new law means that, in England and Wales, people who would previously have been sent to prison for short ...

Lindsay Foreman was hunched over the landline in Ward 7 of Tehran’s Evin prison, telling her son Joe that the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign had started. Warplanes had been circling above the Iranian ...

America’s federal prison system is running a 20th-century operation against 21st-century threats. If Congress is serious about public safety, it must modernize the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Right now ...