People detained in Vermont’s prisons for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection struggle to call their families and have been exposed to physical violence.

President Donald Trump filed an executive order that Federal Employees who are union members say strips them of all their ...

A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to ...

Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is ...

(Louisiana First ... In a similar case, a federal judge in Texas recently ruled that extreme heat in its prisons is “plainly unconstitutional” but stopped short of ordering air conditioners ...

A federal judge criticized Texas for keeping prisoners in hot prisons without air conditioning but did not order an immediate ...

Texas has more than 130,000 people in prisons. Only about a third of ... beds in our facilities,” the agency said. In Louisiana, a federal judge last year ordered prison officials to increase ...