AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

Texas officials acknowledged that heat may have been a factor ... without working air conditioning. In Georgia, prison officials face a federal lawsuit from the family of a man who said he died ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge's rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ordering a fix before summer in what has become of the country's biggest ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

FILE - Advocates for cooling Texas prisons construct a makeshift cell before ... for an emergency special session to address the deadly heat effecting inmates. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) ...