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The state Department of Motor Vehicles is launching a new program to issue non-driver identification cards to formerly incarcerated people.

Using a personal fan. drenching themselves and water. that said they are already waking up drenched in sweat most days. going to bed drenched in sweat. the prison cells are extremely hot. and the higher in some of these facilities you go, the worse it gets. as you know, he rises. >> david, here is the thing. this is not new news. temperatures inside of texas prisons have been a problem for years. and they do have restrictions in county jails. why is nothing being done in state prisons? >> its a ...

A heat wave that has consistently pushed temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius) across much of Texas this summer had family members of inmates on Tuesday calling for lawmakers to ensure that all of the state’s prisons are fully air conditioned. “They’re cooking our inmates in the Texas prison system,” said Tona Southards Naranjo, who believes the death last month of her son, Jon Southards, was caused by excessive heat in his prison, the...

Crews are working to raise the levee by about four feet to make up for recent sinking from groundwater during years of drought.

Crews are working to raise the levee by about four feet to make up for recent sinking from groundwater during years of drought.

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Analysis by experts at the Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests conditions go untreated among incarcerated people compared to general public

Media says court was liberal 15 years ago. Dead wrong. This is a radical change.

A cross-sectional analysis of data is offering a snapshot of trends in the treatment of 7 common chronic health conditions among incarcerated populations in the US relative to the general population.

Worst case scenario. the levee that were standing on is called the corcoran levy. its a 14.5 mile levee that protects the city of corcoran, the two state prisons, the residents here is about 22,000 residents and about 8000 inmates. and so the work behind us that youll see over here with the tractor work in the distance there actually building the levee up another 4 to 5 ft. god willing, that will protect the city of corporate. theres a race against the melt. thats exactly right. right so weve be...