Texas sets temperature standards for county jails and even animal shelters. But state prisons have no enforceable heat limits ...
A new comprehensive analysis of state data shows Texas prisons get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely ...
Prisoners at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas, in March of 1966. Ellis is built on land from a former slave plantation. Credit: Photo by Bruce Jackson On a 90-degree June day at Memorial Unit in ...