One of the bills Wallace proposed to the state legislature this year is to prohibit public school libraries from carrying any book banned in Texas prisons. A parent in @Allen_ISD reads from an ...

Texas rolled back a policy preventing books from reaching incarcerated people after we began ... improved conditions in specific prisons and jails, gotten people out of detention, and been cited by ...

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

In a renewed era of book banning, most of the news cycle has been dominated by efforts — mostly by conservative groups — to ban certain books from school libraries. However, a new report has ...

Looking to this prison for inspiration might seem a curious choice to many, given Texas executes more people ... could take a leaf out of their book. Even so, the justice secretary believes ...