A trial against the state of Texas for not having air conditioning at its state prisons starts this week. Organizations representing inmates argue extreme heat amounts to illegal, cruel punishment.

There were allegedly five heat-related deaths over the last two summers in Texas prisons, the plaintiff’s attorneys presented on the first day of the federal trial over insufficient air conditioning ...

The plaintiffs are asking for the entire Texas prison system to be air-conditioned by the end of 2029 in a trial that is expected to last two weeks.

Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all its prison cells.

A Vietnam veteran in Henderson received a new air conditioner Friday, donated by a military-owned and operated heating and cooling company.

More than 80,000 Texas prison inmates reside in facilities that do not have air conditioning in most living areas, and dozens of them have died in the sweltering heat.