Houston Public MediaGhislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker and former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, has been transferred to a federal prison in Bryan.
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A Texas prisoner has pleaded guilty to killing a 27-year-old correctional officer from the Houston area in 2023.
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Texas prisoner pleads guilty to capital murder in 2023 death of correctional officer from Houston area
Jovian Motley, 27, died during a tussle inside of a prison cell in the Wainwright Unit in Lovelady, about 20 miles north of Huntsville. It happened while five officers worked to restrain Jabari Lewis, who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to Motley's murder.
A federal judge has decided not to order temporary air conditioning be installed in all Texas prisons, allowing a lawsuit against the state to move forward while admitting that the problem will be costly to fix.
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Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside are dangerous to inmates and staff, according to an internal investigation triggered by a federal lawsuit.
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Texas prison staff falsified records about temperatures behind bars, internal investigation finds
The investigation, which homed in on recordkeeping at the Mark W. Stiles Unit in Beaumont over the summer of 2022, found prison staff “recreated” logs that were missing or had been “defaced (e.g., doodles, stick figure cartoons, etc.) by staff.”
Many Texas prisons don't have air conditioning. This lawsuit seeks to change that.
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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Citing reports of excessive heat in Texas prisons, House Democrats call for investigation
Fourteen Congressional Democrats, including two from Texas, signed a letter calling for a probe into heat-related conditions in prisons across the country.
The state Senate rejected a Texas House request to use more than a half a billion dollars of the state’s surplus to expedite installation of modern HVAC systems in prisons.
