Prosecutors in western New York on Tuesday dropped their efforts to retry a man whose murder conviction was overturned in the ...

A new report filed in a class-action lawsuit shows that conditions inside a South Florida men’s prison were far more extreme than the sweltering summer temperatures outside — with the heat index ...

Sensors inside inside Dade Correctional Institution averaged 98 degrees heat index between May and October. Miami Herald staff file photo Miami A new report filed in a class-action lawsuit shows that ...

Prisoners working the Farm Line at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana. (Photo from federal judge's order via Courthouse News) (CN) — The state of Louisiana asked a Fifth Circuit ...

As the heat index hit 105 degrees, lawyers requested swift cooling measures in a Missouri prison with no A/C. One man shares the dangerous conditions inside while people await a judge’s ruling. In May ...

In May, Missouri became one of the northernmost states to hear arguments for better heat mitigation in state prisons after the MacArthur Justice Center filed a class action lawsuit alleging that one ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A New Orleans-based human rights group was able to get a Louisiana federal court to renew a preliminary injunction requiring the state’s corrections officials to issue a “heat alert ...

Multiple inmates at Heritage Trail Correctional Facility claim they are still struggling under oppressive summer heat despite recent air conditioning repairs at the private prison southwest of ...

Inmates at a prison in southwestern France are struggling to cope as a heatwave grips the region, with high temperatures set to persist through the weekend. Fans hummed in every corner, and sheets ...