The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Horses graze outside the TDCJ Allan B. Polunsky Unit July 14, 2018 in Livingston. Christopher Young, who is on death row there for ...

Imprisoned people are forced to drink and bathe with water they describe as over-chlorinated, slimy, and foul-smelling.

In May 2018, Ruby McPeters was eight months pregnant when she was booked into Hood County jail on a probation violation.

On October 1, 1849, an inmate was brought to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. He was the first inmate in the new partially completed Walls Unit, and was serving time as a convicted horse ...

Texas prisons without air conditioning get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups, like county jails, according to a new ...