Judge orders Texas to have air conditioning in every prison by end of 2029
The ruling said that the state prison agency has estimated that systemwide air conditioning would cost about $1.5 billion.
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The ruling said that the state prison agency has estimated that systemwide air conditioning would cost about $1.5 billion.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
Multiple law enforcement agencies, along with fire departments, have responded to the scene.
A Tarrant County jury sentenced Tanner Horner to death for the 2022 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand.
Thomas Fry, 53, of Royse City, was sentenced to 28 months after being found guilty of possession and sale of a stolen firearm.
An Illinois judge has sentenced a Texas man to more than two decades in federal prison for orchestrating a $20 million cryptocurrency scam.
A North Texas man was executed for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago.
The sheriff's office said the women admitted to being paid $40,000 to smuggle the items.
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price believes it comes down to better pay.
The U.S. Embassy for Venezuela also announced Friday that all American citizens detained in Venezuela have been released.
Derrick Groves, 28, was sentenced Friday to two life sentences over a 2018 double murder, with the Louisiana judge rebuking him for the disruption caused by his five months on the run.
A photo from the prison showed a raw steak, crab legs and Old Bay with side plastic baggies of marijuana and a couple of cartons of cigarettes.
Officials in Louisiana say one of two inmates accused of violent crimes was recaptured after an audacious escape.
The prison picked nearly 30 inmates to participate in the "father-daughter" dance at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
French authorities say one of two men who escaped a prison in Dijon by sawing through bars and then using bedsheets to flee has been recaptured.
Former NFL player Antonio Brown will return to Florida after deciding not to contest his extradition from a New Jersey jail on an attempted murder charge.
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Austin Maddox has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from an underage sex sting.
Katrina Harris, a former inmate, leads her campaign "Survive," an effort to help rebuild and support women who face incarceration.
An internal review reveals that a former police chief, known as the "Devil in the Ozarks," spent months planning his escape from an Arkansas prison.
Conflicts between cartels and other organized crime groups in Mexico are often replicated in prison populations, which struggle with overcrowding.
The judge acknowledged in her ruling that determining whether Abrego Garcia should be released is "little more than an academic exercise" because ICE will likely detain him.
Prison staff gave R. Kelly "an amount of medicine that could have killed him," his lawyer alleged in a federal court filing.
The 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail in mid-May received help from at least 15 people, many of them friends and family.
Christopher Allen, 34, was convicted of aggravated assault against a public servant.
Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and George "Machine-Gun" Kelly.
