NAVASOTA - A plain, white school bus left the Wallace Pack Unit under moonlit skies Wednesday morning, transporting the first group of more than 1,000 heat-sensitive inmates to cooler climes under ...

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The inmates' attorney, Jeff Edwards of Austin, said Friday that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice would guarantee air conditioning for 1,400 inmates of the Pack Unit covered by the lawsuit.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has 15 days to come up with a plan to house some 500 “heat-sensitive” inmates at Wallace Pack Unit in living quarters exceeding no more than 88 degrees.

More than 1,400 state prison inmates - mostly elderly and disabled at the Wallace Pack Unit in Grimes County - will be included in a federal lawsuit that claims they are suffering "cruel and ...

Elderly, disabled inmates at Pack Unit included in "cruel and unusual" heat case Federal civil rights suit alleges lack of air conditioning could be fatal By Gabrielle Banks , Former Assistant ...

The agreement would call for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to guarantee air conditioning for 1,400 inmates of the Wallace Pack Unit covered by the lawsuit, said Jeff Edwards of Austin ...

The 35-year-old federal law regulating tap water is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose what scientists say are serious health risks — and still be legal. The New York Times ...

The Wallace Pack Unit, located about 70 northwest of Houston, near Navasota. A class action lawsuit over heat in a Texas prison is likely to be settled after a federal court hearing Tuesday ...

U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday giving the state's Wallace Pack Unit, a low-security facility in Grimes County that holds 1,400 mostly elderly and sick ...

The brand new 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court got its first crack at inhumanity on Monday, and it did not let the opportunity pass. At issue was a place called the Wallace Pack Unit ...

A spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice says the agency plans to appeal a recent ruling ordering the water supply at a Navasota prison unit be ...