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AUSTIN, Texas — A federal trial over air conditioning in Texas prisons began in Austin on Monday. An issue is whether or not having air conditioning for inmates who are housed in Texas prisons during ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Transgender people have been the focus of an aggressive legislative push to mitigate their access to health care in recent years, and now trans prisoners are facing a new offensive. President Donald ...

Daryl Hannah is making her feelings know about Ryan Murphy’s Love Story, about the fraught relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. The actor—who dated JFK Jr. and. is depicted ...

New York’s troubled prison system still has the same number of vacancies as it did a year ago, when thousands of officers walked off the job in an illegal three-week strike. State Corrections ...

Federal prisons will no longer provide gender-affirming care to incarcerated trans people. That’s according to The Marshall Project, which reported the Bureau of Prisons released its new policy ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona’s prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and ...