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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a man incarcerated at the Estelle Unit who has been suing over his sleep schedule for a decade.

Authorities have released more details on how sex offender Robert Yancy Jr. escaped from a Texas prison on Sunday, and on why his mother is also facing charges. Texas Department...

Robert Yancy Jr., 39, was arrested about 45 miles southwest of the Brazoria County prison on Monday after fleeing from the Matagorda County lockup one day earlier, according to County Officials.

A prisoner with a life sentence investigates a solitary confinement coverup in Texas prisons

Texas jails and prisons see brutal cold and overfilled toilets in winter storm Texas Tribune Updated:  Tags:  As subfreezing temperatures plunged Texas into a power crisis this week, inmates and officers at prisons and jails suffered through harsh and often unsanitary environments. Broken windows and holes in walls let frigid air into unheated cells, extra blankets were quickly taken away, food servings were meager and unflushable toilets overfilled in dorms stuffed with more than 60 men, inmates and their loved ones reported. Corrections officers were kept at the units for days without goi...