AUSTIN, Texas — Texas prisons could be fully air conditioned within the next decade if a newly proposed bill becomes law.

We hope House Bill 3006, authored by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, will succeed. In Texas, air conditioning is not a luxury ...

Just over an hour from Tyler lies the biggest prison in Texas. Take a closer look at the H.H. Coffield Unit, a massive and ...

Nine inmates at the Telford Unit face new charges related to organized criminal activity, according to a TDCJ investigation.

Investigators said the former correctional officer had been paid thousands of dollars by inmates and accomplices for previous ...

First, Christopher Wade Pleasant of Longview, who is serving time in TDCJ for the murder of Victorria Jasmine Sam in 2016. He now is also charged with organized criminal activity, bribery/money ...

The Texas House Committee on Corrections has approved House Bill 3006, which requires prisons to have air conditioning installed by the end of 2032, providing $100 million over two phases.

The Texas Legislature should pass House Bill 3005 to begin the process for installing air conditioning in state prisons — a ...

A House panel approved on Wednesday a bill to require prisons to have air-conditioning by the end of 2032. House Bill 3006, by Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, would ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative push to require air conditioning in every state prison has not gained ...

Nine inmates were charged in their part of a conspiracy to introduce contraband into the Barry B. Telford Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. These charges are part of a larger ...

Officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which oversees the state’s 101 prison facilities, asked lawmakers for $118 million over the next biennium to install air conditioning in ...