Texas Texas death row inmates sue state over mandatory solitary confinement The TX prisoners are confined to 8-by-12 cells for 22 hours a day ...

On death row, men are shut alone in small cells between 22 and 24 hours a day, often violating the state’s own policies on how often they are let out, the lawsuit says.

On death row, men are shut alone in small cells between 22 and 24 hours a day, often violating the state’s own policies on how often they are let out, the lawsuit says.

Inmates at the Polunsky Death Row Unit regularly go weeks without adequate out-of-cell recreational time, the lawsuit alleges. The facility is supposed to adhere to the Death Row Plan adopted by ...

Thursday's Top Stories Dallas-Fort Worth, Jan. 26 06:06. HOUSTON (AP) — A group of death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Texas prison system over its policy of mandatory ...

As of 2021, 12 states also practiced automatic solitary confinement for death row prisoners. According to the lawsuit , these Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours each day in cramped, 8 ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A group of death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Texas prison system over its policy of mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement for all prisoners ...

Texas death row inmates sue over solitary confinement ... medical care and legal representation as they are confined to their 8-by-12-foot (2.4-by-3.7-meter) cells for all but two hours a day. ...

A group of Texas death row inmates have filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s prison system over its policy of mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement for all prisoners who are ...

A group of Texas death row inmates have filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s prison system over its policy of mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement for all prisoners who are ...

The state began automatically holding male death-row inmates in solitary confinement around 2000 after its Allan B. Polunsky Unit opened in Livingston. Now, 168 men reside in the facility in solitary.