Nearly 60% of the state's 106 prison units have active cases. ... Hutchins is one of 44 Texas prison units under precautionary lockdown because inmates and guards have tested positive for COVID-19.

But extreme temperatures at the state jail where he's serving time on drug charges have tested that resolve. It's hot at the Hutchins Unit, just a 15-minute drive from downtown Dallas.

Texas operates 67 prisons and 16 jails, including Hutchins State Jail in Dallas, as well as several psychiatric, geriatric, medical and substance abuse facilities. Advertisement ...

Texas, as you may have intuited, is hot, but Texas prisons, ... Heat doesn't do Bradley Caddell, who lived in Hutchins State Jail when McCollum died, any favors. He is in his early 50s, ...

Larry Gene McCollum suffered heat stroke last summer, while serving time at the Hutchins State Jail in Dallas. The 58-year-old was rushed to a Dallas emergency room, but died.

HOUSTON (CN) – A Texas prisoner died from heat stroke due to the prison system’s former policy of not immediately calling 911 for emergencies, a federal judge ruled, refusing to dismiss deliberate ...

McCollum was serving a one-year sentence in the Hutchins State Jail near Dallas for writing a bad check when he died of a heat stroke on July 22, 2011, just seven days after he arrived at the jail.

DALLAS — Behind the walls of the Hutchins State Jail in southern Dallas County, the inmates are afraid they will contract COVID-19. So are the correctional officers. “I’m scared every day. I ...

DALLAS — Behind the walls of the Hutchins State Jail in southern Dallas County, the inmates are afraid they will contract COVID-19. So are the correctional officers. “I’m scared every day. I ...

DALLAS — Behind the walls of the Hutchins State Jail in southern Dallas County, the inmates are afraid they will contract COVID-19. So are the correctional officers. “I’m scared every day. I ...